Job Title: Performance Improvement Analyst
Location: Plymouth, Devon, Leicester, or Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £43,935 – £45,000 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF65206
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 Performance Improvement Analyst at our Devonport Royal Dockyard, Babcock Technology Centre or Leicester Radar Road sites.
The role
As a Performance Improvement Analyst, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Join the Submarine Support Enterprise (SSE), a core delivery function within Babcock’s Naval Nuclear business. In this role, you’ll help drive strategic outcomes that ensure the operational success and future capability of the UK’s submarine fleet—contributing to national security through engineering excellence and collaborative delivery.
Day-to-day, you’ll apply advanced analytics to diagnose root causes and design targeted solutions that enhance performance across the submarine enterprise.
- Manage and monitor enterprise initiatives, ensuring accurate performance tracking and benefit delivery
- Analyse performance data to uncover trends and identify opportunities for operational improvement
- Conduct root cause analysis using best-practice methodologies and recommend targeted solutions
- Oversee initiative portfolios, including resource planning, progress updates, and benefit realisation
- Champion change management to embed sustainable improvements across the submarine support enterprise
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and requires regular travel to Bristol on a weekly basis alongside home working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Performance Improvement Analyst
- Demonstrated expertise in data analytics, delivering insights in complex operational settings
- Experience driving continuous improvement through project delivery in performance-led teams
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data for strategic decision-making
- Proven problem-solver, skilled in root cause analysis and implementing enterprise-wide solutions
Qualifications for the Performance Improvement Analyst
- A-levels in Mathematics or Business Studies, and/or proven expertise in Lean Six Sigma (minimum Green Belt) or equivalent hands-on experience in process improvement.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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 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 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
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has 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.
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: 01/09/2025
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