Job Title: Head of Site
Location: Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
Compensation: Up to £75,000 Dependent on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72260
Lead a High‑Performing Team Driving Operational Excellence for 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 Ashchurch, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.
The role
As a Head of Site, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a pivotal leadership role at one of our key operational locations, ensuring our teams deliver outstanding support to the British Army through world‑class maintenance, repair and overhaul services. This is a chance to shape a high‑performance culture, bring multiple teams together under a unified operational vision, and influence the delivery of vehicle equipment outputs that directly enable national defence capability.
Day-to-day you’ll be required to:
- Lead, motivate and develop large operational teams to achieve People, Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cash and Cost (PSQDCC) targets.
- Oversee the delivery of production outputs for Army vehicle equipment across internal and external partners.
- Provide cohesive and visible leadership to integrate functions into a unified Operational Management team.
- Build a strong, positive, high‑performance culture aligned to the Babcock Principles.
- Strengthen stakeholder relationships, ensuring effective collaboration with customers and partners.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Ashchurch.
Essential experience of the Head of Site:
- Leading large teams in a complex operational environment.
- Strong knowledge of Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) business models, processes and performance delivery.
- Proven experience managing customer relationships across multi‑stakeholder settings.
- Exceptional leadership capability with financial, commercial and performance management expertise.
- Excellent verbal and written 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 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: 18/03/2026
