Equipment Support Manager

Job Title:                     Equipment Support Manager

Location:                     Plymouth, Devon + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:           £54,019 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF70891

Bring Your Commercial Skills to Projects That 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 Equipment Support Manager at our Plymouth, Devon site.

The role:

As a Equipment Support Manager you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. you will help drive one of the most essential capabilities within the UK’s defence and nuclear enterprise. This is a role where every decision you make contributes directly to national security, fleet readiness and the safe delivery of fuel handling operations on some of the world’s most advanced submarine platforms.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to: 

• Managing and planning the full spectrum of fuel‑handling programme activities.
• Leading the fuel handling support team to ensure equipment, tooling and materials are available when required.
• Overseeing all task‑specific documentation and quality records for accuracy and compliance.
• Coordinating procurement activities to meet programme timelines.
• Controlling the storage, maintenance and availability of fuel-handling equipment and materials.

Please note that this position involves working at height. Candidates must be able to work safely and perform tasks at varying heights.

This is a full‑time, 35‑hours‑per‑week position based onsite in Plymouth, Devon. Hybrid working patterns are available with three-four days working onsite.

Essential experience of the Equipment Support Manager:

• Knowledge of logistics and store control processes.
• Experience directing and managing industrial or non‑industrial staff
• Experience in planning or project management - Desirable
• Awareness of safety cases and nuclear infrastructure management - Desirable
• Awareness of UK civil and defence nuclear regulatory requirements - Desirable

Qualifications for the Equipment Support Manager: 

• Level 3 Qualification in an Engineering discipline, or equivalent demonstrable experience.

• Qualification in Logistics, Supply Chain, Operations- Desirable

• Project Management qualification – Desirable 

Security Clearance:

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) / NNPPI / Atomic 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 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. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘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

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: 06/04/2026

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