Head of Site, Tewkesbury

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.

• Lead, motivate and develop large operational teams to achieve People, Safety, Quality, Delivery, Cash and Cost targets.
• Provide cohesive and visible leadership to integrate functions into a unified Operational Management team.
• Oversee the delivery of production outputs for Army vehicle equipment across internal and external partners.
• 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 at the Ashchurch 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.

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

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.

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 ().

• 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 allows employees to buy additional leave or 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.

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