Process Improvement Specialist

Job Title:        Process Improvement Specialist 
Location:        Andover, Hampshire or Stoke Gifford, Bristol or Donnington, Shropshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation:    £55,000 + Benefits
Role Type:        6 Month Fixed Term Contract 
Role ID:        SF55881

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 Process Improvement Specialist at our Andover, Hampshire, Stoke Gifford, Bristol or Donnington, Shropshire site.

The role
As a Process Improvement Specialist, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will working within the Reframe Programme Team to design processes for new capabilities, ensuring alignment to Babcock’s existing Business Management Systems (BMS) as we transform our support to the British Army.   

Day-to-day, you’ll be responsible for the facilitation of workshops to create new end to end processes. You will be a key member of the Reframe Programme team and exposed to a wide range of functions and stakeholders as we move to becoming a Single Source, QDC compliant business.

• Facilitate workshops to identify the new processes, working with Workstream leads in the Reframe Programme team and business as usual (BAU) subject matter experts
• To deliver standardised ‘process improvements’ within the Reframe Programme, designing new processes in line with current Babcock standards and approach
• Update and create processes to ensure alignment with QDC requirements and new business capabilities
• To ensure all processes are accurately documented and stored within the appropriate BMS
• This position involves travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and requires regular travel to Donnington Shropshire, Andover, Hampshire and other Babcock base sites on a weekly basis alongside home working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Process Improvement Specialist 

• Policy/procedure creation and management
• Experience facilitating sessions, getting the right people involved, defining scope and boundaries of the process, understanding improvement goals
• Minimum Lean 6 Sigma green belt experience 
• Experience of Visio desirable
• Qualifications for the Process Improvement Specialist

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
• 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
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met. 
• Flexible locations.

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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: 09/08/2024

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