Babcock International Group

Production Engineer

Babcock International Group

full-time

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Location Type: Office

Location: Plymouth • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

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Salary

💰 £38,084 per year

Job Level

Mid-LevelSenior

About the role

  • As a Production Engineer, you’ll be at the heart of delivering critical defence projects that keep the Royal Navy operational.
  • 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 and ordering additional materials, sub-contracts, and labour requirements.
  • Maintain delivery against commercial contracts.
  • Provide technical support to bids for new work and variations on current projects.
  • Plan assigned work scopes for projects/contracts to enable control documentation for Production teams.
  • Estimate work packages, including labour and material requirements.

Requirements

  • Essential experience of the Production Engineer
  • Experience creating and maintaining Bills of Materials (BOMs).
  • Understanding of milling, turning, and drilling activities.
  • Knowledge of material specifications.
  • Ability to write and deliver technical reports.
  • Skilled in interpreting technical drawings.
  • NVQ Level 3 in Engineering or Manufacturing discipline (or 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.
Benefits
  • 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.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
Production EngineeringBills of Materials (BOMs)MillingTurningDrillingTechnical ReportingInterpreting Technical DrawingsMaterial SpecificationsEstimating Work PackagesProduction Control
Soft skills
CollaborationCommunicationOrganizational SkillsProblem SolvingAttention to Detail
Certifications
NVQ Level 3 in EngineeringNVQ Level 3 in ManufacturingSecurity Clearance