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Job Title: General Maintenance Supervisor
Location: Skelton, Cumbria
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74645
Lead essential operations that keep critical defence infrastructure running
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a General Maintenance Supervisor at our Skelton site, near Penrith, Cumbria.
Join a growing Mission Systems business delivering world-class maritime, weapons, communications and intelligence solutions. This is your opportunity to take on a key leadership role that directly supports national security while developing your career in the defence, aerospace and engineering sector.
The role
As a General Maintenance Supervisor, you’ll lead a small, multi-skilled team responsible for delivering essential site maintenance and facilities support. From ensuring safe and compliant environments to driving operational efficiency, your role will be central to maintaining critical infrastructure that supports defence operations.
This is an exciting opportunity to combine leadership, hands-on technical work and continuous improvement in a fast-paced engineering environment. You’ll help shape maintenance strategies, enhance safety standards and contribute to the success of important national programmes.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
Supervise a small team of estate and household maintenance workers as well as the supervision and development of Health and Safety Processes on site to maintain site compliance to relevant ISO standards.
Development of maintenance procedures policies, and schedules for both household and estate maintenance teams
To maintain technical and administration records and provide information as required, liaising with other technical teams to ensure completion of works
Supervision of contracted staff to ensure that work is carried out to agreed standards and respond to maintenance works required and ensures completion.
Able to Undertake both estate and household maintenance as required with evaluation of estate and buildings to determine necessary maintenance work.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based at Skelton, Cumbria.
Essential experience of the General Maintenance Supervisor
Possession of a current full UK driving licence.
Demonstrable experience of general building maintenance and cleaning techniques.
A comprehensive knowledge of current safe working practices and safety procedures
Basic Computer skills including email, Word, and spreadsheets.
Qualifications for the General Maintenance Supervisor
CSE or GSCE grade D – E, or NVQ level2.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) and Developed Vetting (DV) 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
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 share scheme
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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
‘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
Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
A dynamic working environment
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
[email protected] 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.
Closing date: 06/07/2026
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