Job Title: Head of Site
Location: Beverley, East Yorkshire
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF76322
Lead Operational Excellence Supporting the British Army
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Head of Site at Leconfield, near Beverley, East Yorkshire.
The role
As a Head of Site, you'll take ownership of a strategically important operational facility delivering maintenance, repair and overhaul services that support critical British Army capability. This is an exciting leadership opportunity where you'll shape site performance, lead diverse operational teams, and drive continuous improvement across safety, quality, delivery, cost and people performance.
Day-to-day you'll be required to:
- Lead the site to deliver operational, financial and customer performance objectives.
- Drive a positive, high-performance culture focused on safety, quality and continuous improvement.
- Manage relationships with key customer and stakeholder groups across the enterprise.
- Oversee the delivery of maintenance, repair and overhaul activities that support Army vehicle capability.
- Develop and coaching leaders and teams to achieve outstanding business performance.
The role is based onsite at Leconfield, and the set working times are Monday to Friday, 37 hours per week.
Essential experience of the Head of Site:
- Leadership of large teams within an operational environment.
- Strong understanding of maintenance, repair and overhaul business models and associated processes.
- Experience delivering multiple business objectives within a complex operational setting.
- Proven customer relationship management skills within multi-stakeholder environments.
- Strong leadership, commercial, financial and communication skills.
Qualifications for the Head of Site:
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
- 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 29,000 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: 26/10/2026