Job Title: Delivery Installation Manager
Location: Ashchurch, Tewkesbury
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74352
Lead the delivery of cutting-edge engineering projects that make a real-world impact
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Delivery Installation Manager at Ashchurch, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.
Working within our Mission Systems business, you’ll be part of a rapidly growing team delivering innovative engineering solutions to critical defence programmes. This is your opportunity to lead from the front, shaping projects that support national security while advancing your career in a dynamic and purpose-driven environment.
The role
As a Delivery Installation Manager, you’ll take ownership of the successful delivery of manufacturing and installation projects across a varied and exciting portfolio. You’ll lead a skilled team, ensuring projects are delivered safely, efficiently, and to the highest standards.
This is a hands-on leadership role where no two days are the same you’ll combine strategic oversight with practical involvement, driving operational excellence while contributing directly to build and installation activities.
Day-to-day, you’ll be:
- As a proven delivery and operations manager, you’ll provide a structured approach to the delivery function ensuring that your team is suitably trained and hold the relevant qualifications to carry out their tasks across the UK sites and further afield.
- The role requires strong planning and operation managing experience along with the ability to manage a team of Installation Technicians across multiple locations, you will need to have a proactive approach to problem solving and willing to support with hands on tasks when required.
- You will be doing a mixture of management activities and hands on work to support the build and installation projects as a when required.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Ashchurch.
Essential experience of the Delivery Installation Manager
- Facility/operations management experience.
- Experience in reading and understanding electrical and mechanical drawings.
- Experience leading a team by setting a good example and ensuring processes are followed.
- Experience of creating and implementing processes and driving continual improvement activities.
- A good understanding of project management systems and processes and adequate knowledge of and compliance with the Health and Safety policy and regulations consistent with their responsibilities.
Qualifications for the Delivery Installation Manager
- Minimum HNC/HND in engineering or demonstrable experience in relevant roles
- IOSH Managing safely would be advantageous
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance for this role. Must be Sole UK
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 allowing you to buy or sell annual leave
- ‘Be Kind Day’ – one paid day per year for volunteering
- Flexible working – options to support your work-life balance
- A dynamic working environment
Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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: 23/06/2026
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