Facilities and Maintenance Team Leader

As a Facilities and Maintenance Team Leader, you'll play a key role in ensuring the smooth operation of a busy fire and rescue training centre. Leading a team, you'll 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. You'll 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 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. 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.

At Babcock, we're 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., 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.

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 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.