Vehicle Workshop Manager

Job Title:              Vehicle Workshop Manager
Location:              Ruislip, West London
Compensation:    £55,000 - £65,000 Dependent on Experience + Benefits
Role Type:            Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:                SF59457

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 Vehicle Workshop Manager at our Ruislip site.

The role
As a Vehicle Workshop Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This is an exciting opportunity to support Babcock and the London Fire Brigade in keeping us safe.

Day-to-day, you’ll maximise vehicle throughput, minimising vehicle downtime, whilst controlling costs, maintaining compliance, and creating an environment for the employees to thrive and achieve, whilst promoting a safe culture and environment.

• Review the workshop structure and resourcing to ensure it is robust and agile to meet the contractual demand
• Have a consistent commercial focus including customer service, risk management, effective use of technology and consideration of limited resource management
• Focus on People - recruitment, development, training and retention within the workshop
• Focus on quality in the workshop: quality of output with high first-time fix rates, quality of work submissions
• Financials – understand the cost base, create a plan to improve productivity, utilisation, and efficiency

This role is full time, 40 hours per week Monday - Friday and is based on site at Ruislip.

Essential experience of the Vehicle Workshop Manager:

• Significant experience in the repair and maintenance of motor vehicles
• Working effectively with internal and external stakeholders
• Excellent attention to detail

Qualifications for the Vehicle Workshop Manager:

• Relevant Technical Qualification – HGV IMI Level 3
• Educated to GCSE level or equivalent
• UK Driving License

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) 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: 19/09/2024

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