Job Title: Technical Operations and Maintenance Manager
Location: Plymouth Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £49, + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
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 Technical Operations and Maintenance Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Technical Operations and Maintenance Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll have direct responsibility as line manager for the technical authorship and administration teams.
Day-to-day, you’ll have a responsibility to ensure that all documentation required to deliver Radioactive Waste Management (RWM) products are prepared, and supplied in a timely manner, and identifying methodologies to repair and improve the RWM facilities.
1. Ensuring that all documentation required to deliver radioactive waste management operations and maintenance products are prepared and supplied in a timely manner
2. Developing and implementing suitable processes and training to always ensure compliance with related identified operating instructions, and to ensure all persons involved with operations controlled within the Nuclear Operations Maintenance Managers (NOMM) sphere of influence are competent and trained to do so
3. To assist the RWM Authorisation Group by providing professional advice on the facility plant and systems, including writing reports and verification of documents
4. To be the direct line manager of the technical authorship and administrative team ensuring statement of conformance conditions are met and Appointed Suitably Qualified and Experienced Person (ASQEP) responsibilities are accepted and governed on behalf of the NOMM
5. To act as an ASQEP on behalf of the NOMM RWM, to include responsibilities including a sponsoring and ownership of RWM operations and maintenance documentation
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Technical Operations and Maintenance Manager
6. Understand and interpret a variety of technical documents and drawings
7. Appreciation, understanding and experience of working in a regulated environment
8. Appreciation, understanding and experience of working in industrial areas and the associated hazards
9. Technical operations relating to nuclear and radiological activities - Desirable
10. Maintenance of facilities and equipment to support industrial activities both nuclear and non-nuclear - Desirable
11. Industrial operations on regulated/licenced sites - Desirable
Qualifications for the Technical Operations and Maintenance Manager
12. NVQ Level 5 in an engineering discipline or equivalent experience
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) 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
What we offer
13. Generous holiday allowance
14. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
15. Employee share scheme
16. Employee shopping savings portal
17. Payment of Professional Fees
18. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
19. 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
20. ‘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