Production Support Technician
// Role Summary
Join Babcock as a Production Support Technician in Plymouth, Devon, playing a crucial role in vital UK defence programmes by ensuring documentation, quality, and safety compliance within the Submarine Support Business Unit.
// Key Responsibilities
- Support critical UK defence programmes in the Submarine Support Business Unit.
- Produce and maintain compliant production, quality, and safety documentation.
- Coordinate and track non-destructive examination and welding inspection requests.
- Manage production and quality data within departmental systems.
- Ensure compliance with nuclear safety, corporate procedures, and regulatory requirements.
- Requires Security Check (SC) clearance.
// Role Specification
About the Role
At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. As a Production Support Technician at our Plymouth, Devon site, you'll play a vital supporting role within our Submarine Support Business Unit, based in Dock 9 and the Submarine Refit Complex at Devonport. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of the UK’s defence programme, ensuring production documentation, quality records and safety compliance are delivered to the highest standards.
What You'll Do
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Produce and maintain compliant production and quality documentation to meet programme, safety and quality requirements.
- Coordinate and track non-destructive examination and welding inspection requests through to completion.
- Update and manage production and quality data within departmental systems and databases.
- Ensure compliance with nuclear safety, corporate procedures and regulatory requirements.
- Liaise with quality, inspection and engineering teams to support production delivery.
About You
This is a full-time role, working 37 hours per week at Devonport Royal Dockyard in Plymouth, Devon. Set working times are 7.30am–3.30pm Monday to Thursday, and 7.00am–12.00pm on Friday.
You will need:
- Experience working within an engineering, manufacturing, refit or maintenance environment.
- Confidence producing and closing out technical and quality documentation.
- Strong IT skills, including data management and use of Microsoft Windows-based systems.
- The ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders.
- A team-focused approach with a willingness to learn and complete required training.
A background in a constructive or engineering trade would be advantageous, but is not essential. We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education; provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn, we would like to hear from you.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
What We Offer
We offer a comprehensive benefits package including:
- 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.
- ‘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 is a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference. We are committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive and are happy to talk about flexible working.