Lifting Operations Team Leader

Job Title:              Lifting Operations Team Leader
Location:              Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation:    Up to £50,118 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type:           Full time / Permanent
Role ID:               SF58044

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 Lifting Operations Team Leader at our Faslane site.

The role
As a Lifting Operations Team Leader, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll lead and manage a team of industrial trades responsible for carrying out a wide range of skilled lifting activities.

Day-to-day, you’ll work with Planning Coordinators and Appointed Persons to provide appropriate resource solutions to meet project demands. Ensuring there is suitable lifting accessories available and are controlled in a legislative manner.  

• Review resource loading across individual projects, identifying gaps in resource and developing solutions.
• Appointment of employees to projects based on analysis of skills, experience, and competencies. 
• Ensure lifting accessories for tasks are maintained, recorded and available. 
• Ensure completion of planned project activities to meet objectives of time, cost, safety, and quality standards.
• Management of absence, performance, leave and training records.

The successful candidate will be expected to work a flexible schedule, including night shifts.  This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Faslane, Clyde.  

Essential experience of the Lifting Operations Team Leader

• Previous supervisory experience preferably working within a lifting / slinging operations environment. 
• Awareness and application of Safe Systems of Work.
• Safety, Health, Environment, Quality awareness.
• Experience in collaborating with multiple stakeholders simultaneously in a dynamic environment.
• Good knowledge and experience of Microsoft package.

Qualifications for the Lifting Operations Team Leader

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

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

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: 03/10/2024

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