Deputy Plant Manager

Job Title:                     Deputy Plant Manager

Location:                     Plymouth, Devon

Compensation:           Competitive + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF72277

Lead the safe operation of critical infrastructure supporting national defence

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 10 Dock - Deputy Plant Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a 10 Dock - Deputy Plant Manager, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring that the facilities supporting major defence programmes operate safely, securely and in line with strict regulatory requirements. This is an opportunity to be at the forefront of a sector where engineering excellence, operational discipline and national security come together.

Day-to-day, you’ll join a specialist team responsible for maintaining the integrity of facilities that enable major submarine maintenance and docking activity, work that directly supports the Royal Navy’s operational capability.

• Lead as a Duly Appointed Person, ensuring compliance with Site Licence Conditions, Authorisation Conditions and environmental permit requirements.
• Support the development of 10 Dock, through design and construction, into nuclear operations.
• Oversee the development of a plant safety case for a new facility and ensure all procedures, operational records and facility documentation are accurate and available when required.
• Manage a small team, ensuring safe systems of work, functional oversight and robust operational discipline.
• Maintain the facility’s design intent, enforcing Operating Rules, Operating Boundaries and Operating Instructions.
• Oversee modifications to existing plant, and support installation and commissioning of new plant and systems.

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

Essential experience of the 10 Dock - Deputy Plant Manager

• Experience of refitting or major docking periods of nuclear submarines.
• Experience managing or operating within nuclear facilities.
• Knowledge of nuclear safety case development and implementation.
• Experience of design or construction activities on a Nuclear Licensed Site - Desirable

Qualifications for the 10 Dock - Deputy Plant Manager

• STEM degree or equivalent relevant experience in nuclear facilities management and operations.
• Chartered Engineer status or can evidence working towards Chartered status.

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: 29/03/2026

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