Transport Manager

Babcock Canada Inc.; Remote; GBP 40,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defence contractor in the United Kingdom is seeking a Transport Manager to oversee and optimize all transport operations at their Wyton site. Responsibilities include managing compliance for transport services, driving improvements, and leading a high-performing team. The ideal candidate will have significant experience in road transport management, a CPC, and a full UK driving licence. This full-time role offers competitive benefits, including a matched contribution pension scheme and opportunities for professional development.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

10-days special paid leave for reservists

Holiday Trading benefit

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Qualifications

• Good knowledge of SHEF practices and procedures.
• Experience with Tri-Service or MoD practices.
• Proven managerial experience in a transport environment.

Responsibilities

• Manage, control and coordinate all transport operations.
• Act as named Transport Manager and CPC Holder.
• Ensure full compliance across all transport activities.
• Drive innovation and improvements in working practices.
• Monitor, review and optimise fleet performance.

Skills

Knowledge of SHEF practices

Strong understanding of MS Office tools

Familiarity with Tri-Service and MoD practices

Proven managerial experience

Education

Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC)

Considerable experience in road transport management

Full clean UK driving licence

Job description

Lead the Transport Operations That Keep Critical Defence Services Moving

At Babcock, we’re 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, you’ll be responsible for leading, managing and coordinating all Mechanical Transport (MT) activities at our Wyton site—ensuring a safe, compliant and high‑performing 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. You’ll grow in a role that builds your leadership capability, strengthens your technical expertise, and contributes to a high‑performing Land & Aviation business unit.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Manage, control and coordinate all transport operations and MT staff
• Act as the named Transport Manager and CPC Holder for Babcock’s 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 full‑time position working 39 hours per week and is based onsite at Wyton, with travel to Henlow one day per week.

Working hours: Monday–Thursday 08:00–17:00, Friday 08:00–16:00.

Essential experience of the Transport Manager

• Good knowledge of SHEF practices and procedures
• Strong understanding of MS Office tools
• Familiarity with Tri‑Service 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 - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) .

What we offer

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

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 [e-mail] 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.

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