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.
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.
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.
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).
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
Babcock is a FTSE 100 defence company operating in our focus countries of the UK, Australasia, Canada, France and South Africa, with exports to additional markets.
Our Purpose, to create a safe and secure world, together, defines our strategy. We support and enhance our customers’ defence and security capabilities and critical assets through a range of product and service solutions. We meet our customers’ requirements of value for money, increased availability, modernisation and flexibility.
These projects take all different kinds of professionals, from chartered engineers and project managers, to naval architects, data analysts and everything in between. To bring through the next generation of engineering and business experts, we offer apprenticeships and roles for students, graduates and fully-qualified professionals.
There’s never been a better time to join us. Whether you’re looking for a new business management project or engineering role, join Babcock and grow with us.
Babcock is a Disability Confident, Committed Employer
