Job Title: Site Manager
Location: Buckinghamshire, England
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Fixed Term Contract
Role ID: SF71941
Lead a high‑performing team supporting critical defence 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 Site Manager at RAF High Wycombe, near High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.
The role
As a Site Manager, you’ll lead and manage all contracted services delivered at RAF High Wycombe. You’ll be the central point of coordination between Babcock, the Air Commercial Team, the Contract Monitoring Team and key site stakeholders — ensuring safe, compliant and high‑quality service delivery. In this role, you’ll be responsible for operational performance, customer relationships, team leadership and contract governance, making a significant impact across the site’s operations.
Day-to-day, you will:
- Lead, mentor and develop a competent workforce across all areas of contract delivery, ensuring training and succession plans are in place.
- Build strong relationships with the Contract Monitoring Team, Head of Establishment and Commanding Officers to support performance, risk management and continuous improvement.
- Drive operational excellence by promoting best practice, innovation and a resilient, engaged workforce.
- Develop and deliver assurance programmes to ensure full compliance with relevant legislation, standards and policies.
- Collaborate with multiple contractors and stakeholders across the site to ensure safe and effective delivery of HADES services.
This is a full time, fixed-term 12-month contract working 40 hours per week and is based on site at RAF High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire.
Essential experience of the Site Manager:
- Extensive experience managing large and diverse teams in an engineering operations or customer‑facing environment.
- Strong budget management, P&L oversight and cost‑modelling capability.
- Proven stakeholder management skills with the ability to build strong working relationships.
- Experience analysing operational data, auditing processes and delivering innovation or improvements.
- Experience producing management information and supporting internal/external contract governance reviews.
Qualifications for the Site Manager:
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 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: 13/03/2026
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