Production Support Operative

Job Title:                      Production Support Operative

Location:                      Plymouth, Devon

Compensation:            £23,200 - £24,900 + Benefits

Role Type:                    Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF74880

Help Keep the Heart of Defence Operations 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 Production Support Operative at Devonport Royal Dockyard, near Plymouth, Devon.

The Role

As a Production Support Operative, you’ll be at the core of maintaining operational excellence at one of the UK’s most critical defence sites. You’ll work hands-on with specialist cleaning equipment and chemicals to ensure our facilities meet the highest standards of safety and cleanliness. This is a vital role that supports the wider engineering and nuclear operations, helping to keep our submarines and naval assets mission ready.

Day-to-day, you’ll use cleaning chemicals and equipment while ensuring strict adherence to health and safety regulations.

• Using specialist cleaning chemicals and equipment to maintain plant and facilities


• Cleaning and decontaminating sensitive areas across the site


• Operating industrial cleaning machinery safely and efficiently


• Following strict health and safety protocols at all times

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

Essential experience of the Production Support Operative:

• Willingness to work at height and in confined spaces


• Positive attitude towards health and safety, with the confidence to challenge unsafe practices


• Ability to work effectively in a team and follow detailed procedures

Qualifications for the Production Support Operative:

• Full clean UK driving licence


• Counterbalance FLT licence is desirable, but training will be provided


• MEWP operator certification or willingness to train

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain 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 

• 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

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: 18/11/2026

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