Job Title: Service Support Lead
Location: Corsham, Wiltshire
Compensation: Competitive Salary + 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 Service Support Lead at our Hawthorn site.
The role
As a Service Support Lead, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Effectively managing the coordination tasking for external support contracts within the Infrastructure Organisation for tasks.
Day-to-day, you’ll maintain and coordinate an effective external support services capability, as well as:
1. Co-ordinate all task dependences internal and external to ensure outsourced and internal support are delivered to schedule, quality and cost.
2. Identify trends and single points of failure and make recommendations and (where applicable) implement potential improvements and optimisations.
3. Provide continued improvement recommendations, highlighting additional cost-effective activities that could be conducted.
4. Hold regular meetings with Service Management to update on current tasking performance and coordinate on future scheduled tasking.
5. Introduce consistent reporting metrics.
This role is full time and is a hybrid role with 1 day onsite per week at Hawthorn.
Essential experience of the Service Support Lead:
6. Excellent Stakeholder relationship Skills.
7. Knowledge of the Royal Navy and its processes.
8. Commercial awareness.
9. Resource allocation.
10. Knowledge of Risk Management.
11. Process creation and Management.
Qualifications for the Service Support Lead:
12. English and Maths GCSE or equivalent.
13. UK full drivers Licence.
Security Clearance
14. The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC)security clearance for this role.
15. 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 (
What we offer
16. Generous holiday allowance
17. Matched contribution pension scheme up to 8% of salary, with life assurance
18. Employee share scheme
19. Employee shopping savings portal
20. Payment of Professional Fees
21. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
22. 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
23. ‘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