Production Co-ordinator

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Plymouth; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense contractor in Plymouth seeks an experienced Production Coordinator for hybrid work at their Devonport Royal Dockyard. The ideal candidate will have engineering experience, proficient document review skills, and a proven ability to engage with stakeholders across disciplines. This full-time role includes various benefits, such as a matched pension scheme and development opportunities.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP and health checks

Employee share scheme

Holiday Trading benefit

Be Kind Day for volunteering

Qualifications

• Extensive trade experience in engineering environments.
• Ability to interpret technical documentation.
• Experience in stakeholder engagement in multidisciplinary scenarios.

Responsibilities

• Ensure timely delivery of submarine assets through planning and coordination.
• Review technical documents and track progress.
• Attend meetings for project status updates and issue flagging.

Skills

Mechanical, constructive, or electrical engineering experience

Technical documentation proficiency

Strong stakeholder engagement

Leadership and team-building skills

Practical problem-solving

Education

ONC/equivalent or above

Job description

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Location:

Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Job Title: Production Coordinator

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF65106

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 Coordinator at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Production Coordinator,you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a vital role in ensuring submarine projects meet key delivery milestones. Working across production, procurement, projects, and technical teams, you’ll help keep schedules on track—supporting timely redeployment and operational readiness.

Day-to-day, you’ll support the safe and timely delivery of submarine assets by planning work activities, reviewing technical documentation, tracking progress, and coordinating with stakeholders across production, procurement, projects, and engineering.

• Deliver key assets to various submarine projects across the Devonport site as required, ensuring timeliness and safety.
• Interpret equipment drawings, interrogate material lists, and liaise with stakeholders to ensure accurate and efficient equipment delivery.
• Attend daily meetings to provide progress updates, flag issues, and contribute to proactive project management.
• Integrate into the wider submarine business, building and maintaining strong relationships with key stakeholders to support long-term collaboration.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Production Coordinator

• Extensive trade experience in mechanical, constructive, or electrical disciplines within complex engineering environments.
• Proficient in technical documentation review and work package creation to support asset delivery.
• Strong stakeholder engagement across multidisciplinary teams and business units.
• Proven leadership and team-building skills, driving collaboration and performance.
• Practical problem solver

Qualifications for the Production Coordinator

• ONC/equivalent or above

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

• 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.

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