Job Title: Deputy Head of Site
Location: Walsall, West Midlands
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits + Car Allowance
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF76950
Lead operational excellence. Shape the future. Make a difference where it matters.
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Deputy Head of Site at our Walsall site, near Walsall, West Midlands.
As Deputy Head of Site, you'll play a pivotal leadership role supporting the Head of Site in the safe, secure and effective operation of a complex engineering and manufacturing environment. This is an opportunity to influence strategic direction while driving day-to-day performance across production, projects, customer accounts and enabling functions. You'll help translate business priorities into operational delivery, ensuring teams remain focused on safety, quality, efficiency and customer satisfaction. Joining Babcock means becoming part of a team that delivers critical capabilities that support defence, security and public services across the UK. It's a role where your leadership will directly impact business performance, customer confidence and the development of future operational capability.
Day-to-day you’ll be:
- Supporting the Head of Site to translate strategic objectives into clear operational plans and priorities
- Coordinating performance across production, projects, customer accounts and enabling functions to ensure successful delivery
- Leading site performance reviews, action tracking, escalations and recovery planning activities
- Monitoring safety, security, quality, delivery, cost, cash, people and risk performance, driving timely corrective action where required
- Embedding operational excellence, continuous improvement initiatives and standardised ways of working across the site
The role is based onsite at Walsall, and the set working times are Monday to Friday, with an early finish on Friday, totalling 37 hours per week.
Essential experience of the Deputy Head of Site:
- Substantial operational leadership experience within a complex manufacturing or engineering environment, ideally automotive or defence.
- Proven responsibility for operational performance across safety, quality, delivery, cost and people
- Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams and resolving cross-functional delivery challenges
- Strong customer and contract management experience, delivering contractual outputs and managing stakeholder priorities
- Commercial and financial awareness, including budgeting, forecasting, performance improvement and risk management
Qualifications for the Deputy 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) / NPPV 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
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 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: 06/11/2026