Working Supervisor - Vehicle Mechanic

Job Title: Working Supervisor - Vehicle Mechanic
Location: Preston Lancashire
Compensation: £35,887 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF56614

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 Working Supervisor - Vehicle Mechanic at our Weeton site.

The role
As a Working Supervisor - Vehicle Mechanic you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. This is great opportunity to be an integral part in a small close-knit team who ensure the delivery teams have everything they need to deliver efficiently and safely.

Day to day, you'll lead a small team and perform service delivery activities as part of the overall team's outputs. They provide the supervisory and first line management responsibilities to smaller and often remote teams located in locations such as In Barrack Equipment Support (IBES) sites and onsite customer service. You'll also ensure systems are updated to reflect current production status providing visibility.

• Managing employee lifecycle (recruitment through to exit processes)
• Managing employee relations (disciplinary, grievance, welfare)
• Performance management (including objective setting, appraisals, managing poor performance, reward/recognition)
• Managing resource levels (absence management, annual leave, use of overtime)
• System administration - ERP, safety near misses, asset management, quality, Quality Management System (QMS)

This role is full time typically working 37-hours per week and will be based at Weeton Barracks.

Essential experience of the Working Supervisor - Vehicle Mechanic

• Competent PC user (MS Office, MS Outlook, SharePoint, ERP system)
• Ability to manage people, individuals, and teams.
• Ability to multi-task
• Ability to challenge and have awkward conversations.
• Ability to make rational decisions based on information available.

Qualifications for the Working Supervisor - Vehicle Mechanic

• Completed relevant technical or vocational qualification equivalent to NQF Level 3 (Advanced apprenticeship, level 3 NVQ)
• Educated to Level 2 in National Qualification Framework (NQF) as a minimum (Intermediate apprenticeship, Level 2 NVQ, GCSE - Grade A* - C, O Level A - C, CSE Grade1) or equivalent workplace 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.

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