Job Title: Site Operations Manager
Location: Shropshire, England
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74331
Lead frontline aviation operations that keep critical defence capability flying
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 Site Operations Manager at our RAF Cosford, Shropshire site.
The role
As a Site Operations Manager, you’ll take overall responsibility for the day‑to‑day delivery of aircraft operations at RAF Cosford, ensuring engineering, maintenance, safety, flying operations and support services operate seamlessly to meet contractual and customer requirements.
Day-to-day, you’ll provide clear direction, manage operational performance and work closely with military and civilian stakeholders to ensure high standards of safety, service and compliance are maintained at all times. Your leadership will directly influence operational readiness, team performance and customer confidence, while offering you the opportunity to further develop your career in a high‑profile aviation environment.
- Leading site operations, ensuring aircraft, engineering and support activities meet contractual and customer requirements
- Managing and motivating onsite teams, providing clear leadership, direction and performance oversight
- Engaging with key stakeholders, including military personnel and internal Babcock teams
- Overseeing reporting and performance data, ensuring accurate operational and statistical reporting
- Maintaining compliance with safety, regulatory and company procedures across all site activities
This role is full time, 40 hours per week and is based on site at RAF Cosford, Shropshire.
Essential experience of the Site Operations Manager:
- Proven experience leading teams in a regulated operational or aviation environment
- Strong leadership capability, with confidence managing diverse, multi‑disciplinary teams
- Excellent communication skills, able to engage effectively with customers and stakeholders
- Demonstrable problem‑solving ability, using data and sound judgement to drive decisions
- Strong planning and organisational skills, managing multiple priorities and deadlines.
Qualifications for the Site Operations Manager:
- Full UK driving licence
- Human Factors qualification
- Recognised Safety, Health, Environment or Fire qualification
- Defence or aviation sector experience.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) 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: 03/07/2026
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