Production Engineer

Job Title:              Production Engineer
Location:              Plymouth, Devon
Compensation:    £39,607.00 + Benefits
Role Type:            Full time / Permanent
Role ID:                SF63179

Shape the Future of Defence Engineering – Join Us as a Production Engineer

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Production Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role
As a Production Engineer, you’ll be at the heart of delivering critical defence projects that keep the Royal Navy operational. This role blends technical expertise with dynamic collaboration, giving you the chance to make a real impact on national security while advancing your career in a world-class engineering environment. 

Day-to-day, you’ll coordinate production control activities to support equipment repair and overhaul for Royal Navy Submarine and Warship programs, ensuring timely delivery, quality compliance, and effective collaboration with customers and internal teams.  

• Process equipment survey reports, identifying and ordering additional materials, sub-contracts, and labour requirements.


• Maintain delivery against commercial contracts.


• Provide technical support to bids for new work and variations on current projects.


• Plan assigned work scopes for projects/contracts to enable control documentation for Production teams.


• Estimate work packages, including labour and material requirements.

This role is full time 35, hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential experience of the Production Engineer

• Experience creating and maintaining Bills of Materials (BOMs).


• Understanding of milling, turning, and drilling activities.


• Knowledge of material specifications.


• Ability to write and deliver technical reports.


• Skilled in interpreting technical drawings.

Qualifications for the Production Engineer

• NVQ Level 3 in Engineering or Manufacturing discipline (or equivalent technical experience). 

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) 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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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


• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

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: 04/03/2026

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