Job Title: Site Manager
Location: Greater London, England
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72046
Lead site operations that keep the UK safe and supported
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 Northolt, near Ruislip, Middlesex.
The role
As a Site Manager, you’ll take the lead at one of our key Aviation sites, overseeing a team of around 120 people and ensuring the effective delivery of HADES services across RAF Northolt. This is a role where your leadership, commercial awareness and ability to build strong partnerships will directly influence service quality, operational excellence and long‑term customer confidence.
You’ll have responsibility for the overall management of site departments, ensuring compliance with all MOD and Babcock policies, processes and procedures. You’ll report directly to the Region 2 Manager and play a vital part in sustaining high‑performance operations across the region.
Day-to-day, you’ll be:
- Leading and developing a team of c.120 employees across multiple operational departments
- Managing the contracted deliverables to ensure performance, quality and safe systems of work
- Acting as the primary interface for the Air Commercial Team and Contract Monitoring Team
- Overseeing financial performance, budgets and continuous improvement activities
- Ensuring excellent customer service and strong relationships across key stakeholders.
This role is full time working 37.5 hours per week and is based on site at RAF Northolt, Greater London.
Essential experience of the Site Manager:
- Experience managing large, diverse teams in an engineering operations or customer‑facing environment
- Knowledge of Military Aviation Operations and MAA regulations (advantageous)
- Experience in budget and P&L management, including cost modelling
- Proven stakeholder management and relationship‑building experience
- Strong capability in investigation, root‑cause analysis and continuous improvement.
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: 20/03/2026
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