Fleet & Engineering Assurance Manager

Job Title:                       Fleet & Engineering Assurance Manager

Location:                       Wainscott, Kent

Compensation:             From £46,152 depending on experience

Role Type:                     Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                         SF65193

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 Fleet & Engineering Assurance Manager at our Wainscott camp site.

The role

As a Fleet & Engineering Assurance Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Ensuring Fleet & Engineering assurance and performance outputs are delivered in line with contractual and legal obligations, supporting and managing outputs through onsite management checks, guidance and support to responsible Supervisors. 

Day-to-day, you’ll provide assurance for the safe efficient and effective operation of all related infrastructure, vehicles, heavy plant, technical equipment, machinery, associated services and distribution systems when delivering a technically proficient and cost-effective service to end users who are aware of their specific use patterns and requirements, as well as:

• Develop, lead, manage, direct and support an assurance team (Planner, Licensing and Support Administrators) ensuring skills and capabilities are appropriate for roles and individual development needs are identified.
• Support responsible Supervisors in the planning and prioritisation of Fleet and Engineering work, ensuring the safe and effective deployment of staff, contractors and resources.
• Liaise, co-ordinate and co-operate with other company resources, operational delivery and management teams as required, including Services and Infrastructure.
• Ensure all Fleet and Engineering activities remain contractually compliant at all times, and to report any deviations to the Service Delivery Manager.

This role is full time and is a hybrid role with a mixture of working from home and working onsite. Although the role is based at Wainscott the work will be done at our Chatham site. This role will also include travel to our RSME Minley site once or twice a month, pool cars will be available to use for travelling from site to site.

Essential experience of the Fleet & Engineering Assurance Manager:

• Experience working with multi-categorised fleet including PSV, HGV and plant machinery

Qualifications for the Fleet & Engineering Assurance Manager:

• Qualified Defence Transport Manager (DTM)
• Qualified Unit Hazmat Transport Supervisor
• Hold a driving licence suitable for use in the UK
• Qualified Defence Road Safety Advisor

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and 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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘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: 30/06/2025