Deputy Plant Manager

Job Title:                     Deputy Plant Manager

Location:                     Plymouth, Devon

Compensation:           Competitive + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF71594

Lead the future of nuclear site operations and help create a safer world

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 Deputy Plant Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Deputy Plant Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in supporting the safe, reliable, and continuous operation of critical nuclear site infrastructure.

Day-to-day, you’ll join our Nuclear Site Plant Management organisation, working closely with expert engineering, maintenance and operations teams to ensure essential electrical distribution systems, ancillary services and mobile crane operations run safely and efficiently. You’ll also support major construction programmes across the site, helping ensure electrical supplies are safely diverted and reinstated as part of complex redevelopment projects.

• Lead cross‑site coordination to ensure safe operation of electrical distribution systems and other critical services.
• Support the delivery and ongoing management of site-wide safety cases, ensuring operational compliance.
• Act as the interface between Plant Management teams, overseeing timely production and distribution of the submarine daily state sheet.
• Ensure maintenance activities are planned, controlled and delivered in line with regulatory and licensing obligations.
• Work closely with operations, maintenance, construction and regulatory stakeholders to maintain safe and compliant site operations.

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

Essential experience of the Deputy Plant Manager

• Demonstrable experience in plant or facility management within a regulated environment.
• Strong background in safety case development and implementation.
• Experience engaging with a broad range of internal, external and government stakeholders.
• Previous involvement in plant authorisation groups - Desirable
• Experience as a Duly Authorised Person - Desirable

Qualifications for the Deputy Plant Manager

• Degree in a relevant scientific or engineering discipline (preferably Electrical Engineering).

• Chartered Engineer status - Desirable
• Nuclear Familiarisation course level 1–4 - Desirable

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.

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. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.

Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.

We call that lifetime engineering.

Join us and see how far we can go, together.

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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 11/03/2026

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