Commissioning Trials Manager

Job Title:              Commissioning Trails Manager
Location:              Faslane, Helensburgh
Compensation:    Up to £65,000 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type:           Full time / Permanent
Role ID:               SF59995

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 Commissioning Trials Manager at HM Naval Base Clyde site near Helensburgh.

The role
As a Commissioning Trials Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a key and influential role in the commissioning strategy, project management and planning of the maintenance projects here at our Combat Systems, HM Naval Base Clyde.

Day-to-day, you’ll lead a commissioning team, ensuring tasks are delivered safely, on time, to specification and within an agreed budget and be responsible for commissioning and overseeing the maintenance of facilities, equipment and plant associated with Submarines. 

• Act as Deputy Test Group Chairman to ensure all Test Documentation is fully authorised by stakeholders and meets specified requirements. 
• Ensure effective management of the customer to aid the development of business, resolution of technical and delivery issues.
• Co-ordinate testing and commissioning activities ensuring they are delivered in a timely and efficient manner within the agreed scope whilst providing advice on testing, commissioning procedures and documentation.
• Ensure team is technically competent, developed, deployed and fully capable of delivering the work required.
• Plan, execute and monitor progress to ensure end to end testing requirements meet the acceptance of equipment consistent with design, performance, safety, quality, and technical specifications.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Faslane, Helensburgh.

Essential experience of the Commissioning Trials Manager

• Proven supervisory experience with significant experience within a combat mechanical or combat electrical environment.
• Experience in complex commissioning and testing procedures and processes.
• Demonstrate people management and stakeholder engagement skills, be analytical and solutions driven with the ability to work autonomously.
• Qualifications for the Commissioning Trials Manager
• Recognised Engineering Apprenticeship, qualified to SVQ Level 3 or equivalent (NVQ3, City & Guilds, HNC)

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

What We Offer

• Generous holiday allowance 
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• 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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing

Babcock International 
For over a century Babcock  has 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. 

We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. 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.

Closing Date: 07/11/2024

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