Workshop Supervisor Support

Job Title:                     Workshop Supervisor Support

Location:                     Wareham, Dorset

Compensation:           £31,586 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF71692

Play a key role in supporting vital defence engineering operations

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Supervisor Support at Bovington, near Wareham, Dorset.

The role

As a Workshop Supervisor Support, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Your work will free up supervisors to spend more time on the shop floor leading their teams, while you take ownership of key administrative, compliance and reporting tasks. It’s a role that offers plenty of variety, visibility across the operation and great potential for personal and professional growth.

Day‑to‑day you’ll be:

• Completing data entry, reporting and record‑keeping tasks to support workshop performance
• Carrying out compliance checks and ensuring documentation is accurate and up to date
• Coordinating and booking visitors, including escorting them across site when required
• Supporting supervisors with office‑based tasks that allow them to spend more time with their teams
• Collaborating with internal stakeholders across the workshop, production, and support teams

This position is full-time, 37 hours per week, based on-site at Bovington.

Essential experience for the Workshop Supervisor Support role:

• Proficient in PC applications including Microsoft Office, Outlook, SharePoint and ERP systems
• Experience working in an administrative, coordination or support‑based role
• Strong organisational skills and the ability to manage competing priorities
• Good communication skills and confidence engaging with multiple stakeholders
• A proactive, detail‑focused approach to completing tasks accurately

Qualifications for the Workshop Supervisor Support role:

• Educated to Level 2 in the National Qualification Framework (e.g., GCSE grade C or above, Level 1 NVQ, Level 1 Diploma)

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 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

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

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: 17/02/2026