Production Engineer

Babcock International; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 39,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Production Engineer to join their team at Devonport Royal Dockyard. This role offers a unique blend of technical expertise and collaboration, allowing you to contribute directly to critical defense projects. You will be responsible for coordinating production control activities, ensuring quality compliance, and engaging with diverse teams. With a focus on equipment repair and overhaul for the Royal Navy, this position promises an exciting and impactful career path. If you have a passion for engineering and want to make a difference, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Special paid leave for reservists

Holiday Trading benefit

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Experience with creating and maintaining bill of materials.
• Understanding of milling, turning, and drilling activities.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate production control activities for equipment repair and overhaul.
• Maintain delivery against commercial contracts and provide technical support.

Skills

Bill of Materials Management

Milling Activities

Turning Activities

Drilling Activities

Material Specifications Understanding

Report Writing

Technical Drawing Interpretation

Education

NVQ 3 in Engineering/Manufacturing

Job description

Job Title: Production Engineer
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £38,084 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF63179

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 have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This position blends technical expertise with dynamic collaboration, offering the unique opportunity to directly contribute to critical defence projects while engaging with diverse teams across Devonport Royal Dockyard.

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 / ordering additional materials, sub-contracts and labour requirements.
• Maintaining delivery against commercial contracts.
• Provide technical support to bids for new work and variation orders for current work.
• Carry out detailed planning of assigned work scope for projects/contracts to enable relevant control documentation to be produced for effective implementation by production group.
• Estimation of work packages including the provision of labour and material estimates.

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 with creating and maintaining bill of materials.
• Understanding a range of milling, turning and drilling activities.
• Understanding material specifications.
• Report writing and delivery.
• Interpretation of technical drawings.

Qualifications for the Production Engineer

• NVQ 3 in an Engineering / Manufacturing discipline or demonstrable 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.

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
• 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: 14/04/2025