Waterfront Specialist (Continuous Improvement)

Job Title: Continuous Improvement Waterfront Specialist
Location: Devonport, Plymouth
Compensation: Up to £49,104 dependent on experience
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF61196

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 Continuous Improvement Waterfront Specialist at our Devonport site.

The role
As a Continuous Improvement Waterfront Specialist, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Learning from Experience (LfE) is a through life process which enables organised learning by replicating success, avoiding mistakes, and publicising and promoting best practice throughout the submarine enterprise.

Day-to-day, you’ll manage a co-ordinated enterprise-wide end to end LFE approach providing support in capturing, managing, analysing & implementing LFE to improve future maintenance planning and delivery performance.

• Identification of Maintenance Planning Improvements
• Efficient maintenance of the LfE database and accurate inputting of data.
• Accurate updating of LfE item status and actions.
• Production of periodic written LfE reports.
• Efficiently answering employee enquiries, maintaining a high level of customer care in the process.
• Demonstrate effective communication skills when liaising with stakeholders throughout the enterprise.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 2 days in the office/onsite and 3 days working from home.

Essential experience of the Continuous Improvement Waterfront Specialist

• An engineering background, or significant experience in Continuous Improvement (Lean / Six Sigma Improvement Methodologies)
• Excellent process experience, implementing LFE / maintenance planning improvements.
• Good communication skills & stakeholder management experience.
• Willing to challenge yourself & others to do things differently.
• Ability to work autonomously but also as part of a team.

Qualifications for the Continuous Improvement Waterfront Specialist

• HNC/HND in engineering or another relevant specialisation.
• APM Fundamentals or equivalent qualification desirable.
• Lean six sigma qualification / experience desirable.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

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 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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

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: 07/03/25