Production Support Technician

Job Title:                     Production Support Technician

Location:                     Plymouth, Devon

Compensation:           £32,500 - £40,700 Depending on Experience + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF73170 

Keep Vital Defence Programmes Moving - and Play Your Part in Protecting the UK

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 Production Support Technician at our Plymouth, Devon site.

The role

As a Production Support Technician, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a vital supporting role within our Submarine Support Business Unit, based in Dock 9 and the Submarine Refit Complex at Devonport. This is an exciting opportunity to work at the heart of the UK’s defence programme, ensuring production documentation, quality records and safety compliance are delivered to the highest standards.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Produce and maintain compliant production and quality documentation to meet programme, safety and quality requirements
• Coordinate and track non‑destructive examination and welding inspection requests through to completion
• Update and manage production and quality data within departmental systems and databases
• Ensure compliance with nuclear safety, corporate procedures and regulatory requirements
• Liaise with quality, inspection and engineering teams to support production delivery

This is a full‑time role, working 37 hours per week at Devonport Royal Dockyard in Plymouth, Devon. Set working times are 7.30am–3.30pm Monday to Thursday, and 7.00am–12.00pm on Friday.

Essential experience of the Production Support Technician:

• Experience working within an engineering, manufacturing, refit or maintenance environment
• Confidence producing and closing out technical and quality documentation
• Strong IT skills, including data management and use of Microsoft Windows‑based systems
• The ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders
• A team‑focused approach with a willingness to learn and complete required training

Qualifications for the Production Support Technician:

• A background in a constructive or engineering trade would be advantageous, but is not essential
• We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is 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. 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: 28/04/2026

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