Continuous Improvement Manager

Job Title: Continuous Improvement Project Manager
Location: Bovington
Compensation: Attractive Salary
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF55906
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 Continuous Improvement Project Manager at our Bovington site.
The role
As a Continuous Improvement Project Manager, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You will be working as a Continuous Improvement Project Manager in identifying how through learning technologies, existing and future training delivery can be modernised and overall learning experience improved, creating greater realism and effective training effect for the entire business unit.
Day to day, you will be responsible for identifying, confirming, managing (including leading where required) and co-ordinating a portfolio of Continuous Improvement (CI) projects across a contracted training, maintenance, and support service contract.

• Responsible for ensuring CI ideas, projects and change activities are recorded, managed and deliver their intended outcomes. This will involve the production of Business Cases and subsequent Project Initiation Documentation and associated project management processes.
• Identify and manage project risks, issues and opportunities thereby minimising any impact to key delivery milestones.
• Work alongside the customer and operational delivery teams to lead and drive organisational change projects embedding a culture of productivity, Continuous Improvement, performance, and innovation throughout CMC.
• Work in collaboration with operational teams to elicit and develop ideas into CI initiatives and projects as directed by the Programme Board, define benefits, develop measurable outcomes, and ultimately deliver.
• Demonstrate to the customer and wider Babcock through baseline measurement and benefit mapping the impact of performance and Continuous Improvement activities conducted at CMC Bovington.
• Devising and delivering a stakeholder engagement strategy and drafting supporting communications plans which facilitates the embedding of any changes.

This role is full time, based in Bovington working 37 hours per week.
Essential experience of the Continuous Improvement Project Manager:

• Demonstrable experience of successfully delivering change initiatives and projects.
• Experience of managing complex groups of stakeholders.
• Demonstrable experience of critical thinking to deliver outstanding results.
• Demonstrable experience of Project reporting and Project accountability.
• Evidence of delivering/designing/supporting CPD in the teaching or training sector.
• Demonstrable evidence of Continuous Improvement techniques such as Lean production or 6 Sigma methodology.

Qualifications for the Continuous Improvement Project Manager:

• Member of association for Project Management or equivalent professional body or demonstrable experience in project lifecycles
• Degree qualified or equivalent management experience.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.
Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Contributory pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee share scheme
• 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 most employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• '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 International
For over a century Babcock International have helped to defend nations, protect communities, and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. 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: 26/02/24
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