Transport Manager

Job Title: Transport Manager

Location: Huntingdon Cambridgeshire

Compensation: 44772 Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF70995

Lead the Transport Operations That Keep Critical Defence Services Moving

At Babcock were working to create a safe and secure world together. If you join us you can play your part as a Transport Manager at Wyton near Cambridgeshire.

The role

As a Transport Manager youll be responsible for leading managing and coordinating all Mechanical Transport (MT) activities at our Wyton siteensuring a safe compliant and highperforming transport service to our customer. This is an opportunity to shape the way essential defence transport operations are delivered drive innovation in working practices and support an operation that has real impact on safety efficiency and environmental sustainability. Youll grow in a role that builds your leadership capability strengthens your technical expertise and contributes to a highperforming Land & Aviation business unit.

Day-to-day youll be required to:

• Manage control and coordinate all transport operations and MT staff
• Act as the named Transport Manager and CPC Holder for Babcocks Passenger and Goods Vehicle Operator Licences
• Ensure full compliance across all transport activities standards and procedures
• Drive innovation and improvements in working practices operational efficiency and sustainability
• Monitor review and optimise fleet performance to meet operational and cost requirements.

This is a fulltime position working 39 hours per week and is based onsite at Wyton with travel to Henlow one day per week.

Working hours: MondayThursday 08:0017:00 Friday 08:0016:00.

Essential experience of the Transport Manager:

• Good knowledge of SHEF practices and procedures
• Strong understanding of MS Office tools
• Familiarity with TriService and/or MoD practices and completion of the MOD MT Managers Course
• Proven managerial experience in a transport environment.

Qualifications for the Transport Manager:

• Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC)
• Considerable experience in road transport management
• Full clean UK driving licence.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / 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 - ().

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 days paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity.

Babcock

Were Babcock a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26000 people working together to make a difference.

Here youll 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 were 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 with the subject header Reasonable adjustments requirement. Were committed to building an inclusive culture where everyones free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 09/02/2026

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