FLM Mechanical

Babcock International; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 58,000; Full time

Job summary

Babcock International is seeking a First Line Manager - Mechanical at their Devonport Royal Dockyard. This full-time role includes leading a skilled team, ensuring efficient workflows and high-quality standards, while promoting safety in complex engineering projects. The position offers a competitive salary and various benefits.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP and health check

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Holiday Trading benefit

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Development opportunities and assistance programmes

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of mechanical systems and operations.
• Experience supervising a team or willingness to develop leadership skills.
• Effective leadership and interpersonal skills to inspire and motivate.

Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a skilled team of Mechanical Fitters.
• Ensure adherence to health and safety protocols.
• Promote efficient workflow and maintain high-quality standards.

Skills

Health and Safety processes

Leadership skills

Mechanical systems knowledge

Interpersonal skills

Education

ONC, NVQ Level 3

ILM Level 3

IOSH

Job description

Job Title: First Line Manager - Mechanical

Location: Plymouth, Devon

Compensation: £40,098 + Benefits - Gross OTE £57,425

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF64396

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 First Line Manager - Mechanical at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a First Line Manager - Mechanical, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Are you an experienced Mechanical Fitter First Line Manager ready for your next adventure? Babcock Devonport are seeking experienced Mechanical Line Managers to join our team at Devonport, Plymouth. This is your chance to contribute to some highly complex engineering projects.

We are looking for individuals for both a standard FLM Mechanical role, and a FLM Reactor Mechanical position.

Day-to-day, you’ll lead and manage a skilled team, with a focus on supervising Mechanical Fitters to ensure efficient workflow, high-quality standards, and adherence to safety protocols.

• Promote and uphold control of work processes.
• Maintain workplace safety, meeting health, safety, and environmental standards.
• Manage team development with focus on time, performance, behaviours, and quality.
• Provide technical expertise and guidance in your area.
• Take ownership and ensure project objectives are met within schedule and quality requirements, following company procedures.

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

There is an opportunity for Optimised Working Patterns (OWP) within this role. OWP is a temporary variation to your standard terms and condition that commits you to support 7-day working arrangements. For full details of the patterns, pay and durations, this can be found in the OWP 1 and OWP 2 agreements (available from hiring manager).

Primarily, it involves 4-week shift cycles consisting of either day/back shift or day/night shift. An example of the remuneration for these shifts is as follows:

Gross salary: £40,098 Gross OTE for core Dayshift/Backshift Pattern: £57,425

Essential experience of the First Line Manager - Mechanical

• Strong understanding of Health and Safety processes in production activities.
• Experience supervising a team or willingness to develop leadership skills.
• Familiarity with repair, replacement, overhaul, and maintenance processes.
• Effective leadership and interpersonal skills to inspire and motivate a team.
• Comprehensive knowledge of mechanical systems and operations.

Qualifications for the First Line Manager - Mechanical

• ONC, NVQ Level 3
• ILM Level 3
• IOSH

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

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

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 [e-mail] 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: 24/06/2025

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