Facilities and Maintenance Team Leader

Job Title: Facilities and Maintenance Team Leader

Location: Avonmouth Bristol

Compensation: Up to 48500 Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF75476

Lead the team that keeps critical training facilities running safely efficiently and ready for action.

At Babcock were working to create a safe and secure world together. If you join us you can play your part as a Facilities and Maintenance Team Leader at Seven Park Fire & Rescue Training Centre near Avonmouth Bristol.

The role

As a Facilities and Maintenance Team Leader youll play a key role in ensuring the smooth operation of a busy fire and rescue training centre. Leading a team youll oversee facilities maintenance activities contractor management and compliance programmes to keep training environments safe operational and fit for purpose.

This is an exciting opportunity to combine people leadership facilities management and operational planning in a role that directly supports essential emergency services training. Youll help maintain high standards across the site while contributing to a professional customer-focused environment.

Day-to-day you will be:

• Leading and supervising the facilities and maintenance team to ensure the efficient delivery of site operations.
• Coordinating planned maintenance inspections and contractor activities to maintain compliance and performance standards.
• Supporting the delivery of training programmes by ensuring facilities equipment and training environments are available and operational.
• Monitoring health safety and environmental compliance across the site and promoting safe working practices.
• Managing facilities records reporting processes and improvement projects while building positive relationships with customers and stakeholders.

This role is full-time and based on site at Seven Park Fire & Rescue Training Centre in Avonmouth working 37 hours per week Monday to Friday.

Essential experience of the Facilities and Maintenance Team Leader:

• Experience leading and supervising teams and operational activities.
• Experience managing health safety and environmental processes including safe systems of work.
• Experience coordinating and managing contractors and subcontractors.
• Strong IT skills including experience using SharePoint and business systems.
• Experience in project planning and coordinating operational activities.

Qualifications for the Facilities and Maintenance Team Leader:

We value difference and dont 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 Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) / Standard (BPSS) 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: 25/08/2026