Facility Control Officer

Job Title:                     Facility Control Officer

Location:                     Plymouth, Devon

Compensation:            £43,935 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF62915

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 Facility Control Officer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Facility Control Officer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Join as a Facility Control Officer, playing a key role in the Dockside Management Organisation. Work under the Plant Manager, with future oversight from the Dockside Manager, ensuring operational efficiency and control.

Day-to-day, you’ll serve as the Plant Management Group’s representative, ensuring de-confliction, safe release, and control of work within the facility, maintaining operational efficiency and adherence to safety protocols. 

• Ensure governance, verifying nuclear-implicated work and supervising Docksides safety cases and project schedules.
• Collaborate with Major Infrastructure Projects (MIP) Ship Control Office, overseeing work releases, nuclear tasks, asset disposal, and assessment registrations.
• Support the Facilities Authorisation Group Chairperson and wider Plant Manager organisation within MIP.
• Work closely with Project Managers and Engineers to maintain operational efficiency.

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

Essential experience of the Facility Control Officer

• Confident in intervening and challenging personnel across all business levels when necessary.
• Safety leadership, actively promoting and adhering to safety policies.
• Proven experience in nuclear submarine facilities, ensuring expertise in operational environments.

Qualifications for the Facility Control Officer

• NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in an engineering discipline, or demonstrable equivalent experience.
• Nuclear Plant Foundation Course (NUC0793), Submarine Quality Assurance Course (QUAL0002), and ASQEP Course (NUC0897) - Desirable

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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. 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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal. 

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: 30/06/2025

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