Business Improvement Specialist

Job Title:         Business Improvement Specialist  
Location:         Helensburgh, UK – Hybrid 
Compensation:     £42,000 - £50,000
Role Type:         Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:         SF 49327

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Business Improvement Specialist at our Faslane site.

The role

As a Business Improvement Specialist, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Babcock provides services including fleet time engineering, facilities management, waterfront services, logistics and transport within an agreed operating budget, firmly focused on continuous and sustainable improvement in warship and submarine support.

Day to day, you’ll facilitate and deliver multiple improvement projects, cascading the most appropriate techniques to all areas and people involved. You will coach and facilitate individuals and groups in the use of business improvement tools and techniques to enable the consistent delivery of change at all levels in the organisation.

•    Facilitation and delivery of multiple improvement projects, cascading the most appropriate techniques to all areas and people involved. 
•    Assist the Management in maximising the utilisation and the efficiency of all the section’s resource.
•    Coach and facilitate individuals and groups in the use of business improvement tools and techniques to enable the consistent delivery of change at all levels in the organisation.
•     Ensure that all tasks are carried out in accordance with the Company’s cost, time and quality    requirements. 
•    Implementation of the Company Safety, Quality and Environmental policies in the Business Improvement area of the business ensuring that assessments of risks are carried out which lead to safe working attitudes and practices. 
•    Facilitate group workshops in the pursuit of Process Improvements at all levels across the site, ensuring that robust governance arrangements are in place for project management and control.
•    Deliver presentations as required to ensure progress and quality is pro-actively delivered, providing data collection, data analysis and business support to management.
•    Conduct assessments to drive quality and standardisation of implementation, identifying conflicts, issues and opportunities for improvement.  Includes the establishment and maintenance of metrics that give feedback on performance and progress.

Essential experience of the Business Improvement Specialist,

We are seeking individuals with knowledge of the following: 

•    Six Sigma 
•    Business process re-engineering 
•    Project Management 
•    Change Management 
•    Good understanding of Engineering or related industries operations would be desirable 

This role is full time at 37 hours per week and can be working on a hybrid basis from our HMNB Clyde. 

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance level for this role.

Our Benefits

•    Generous holiday allowance 
•    Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
•    Employee share scheme 
•    Employee shopping savings portal
•    Payment of Professional Fees
•    Reservists in the armed forces receive 10 days special paid leave 
•    Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
•    ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

For the full extensive Benefits package please visit our Careers pages

Babcock International 

For over 130 years Babcock International have helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal. 
 
If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

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