Transport Supervisor

As a Transport Supervisor, you'll take day-to-day responsibility for planning, supervising, and controlling transport activity across rotating day and night shifts. Working closely with the Transport Controller and operational stakeholders, you'll ensure resources are deployed effectively and safely in support of customer requirements. Day-to-day, you will:

• Supervise daily transport operations, including driver allocation, vehicle tasking, and duty rosters
• Ensure compliance with road transport law, MOD regulations, and service publications
• Monitor driver hours, licences, competencies, and documentation prior to tasking
• Manage vehicle issues, faults, and breakdowns in line with policy and reporting requirements
• Prioritise and respond to short-notice operational transport demands.
  
  A confident supervisor with experience in transport or fleet operations
• Strong understanding of compliance, safety, and regulated working environments
• Ability to plan ahead while reacting calmly to changing operational priorities
• Clear communicator able to lead and support drivers and stakeholders.
Qualifications for the Transport Supervisor:
• Full, clean UK driving licence
• Additional driving categories (C and/or D), DCPC, or ADR are desirable but not essential.
Security Clearance The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. We're looking for a Transport Supervisor to join our HADES programme, based on site at RAF Northolt. This is a hands-on supervisory role where you'll lead daily transport operations, coordinating drivers, vehicles, and tasking to meet demanding operational requirements while ensuring full compliance with MOD policy, road transport legislation, and company procedures, 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.

This is a full-time, permanent role, operating on a 12-hour rotating shift pattern (days and nights), averaging 38.5 hours per week., 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.