Production Hub Manager in Plymouth

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 Hub Manager at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As a Production Hub Manager, you’ll play a pivotal role in supporting one of the UK's most important submarine programmes by bringing welding resource together into a centralised, high-performing team. This is an exciting opportunity to establish and shape a new operational model, lead a skilled workforce, and drive meaningful improvements in productivity, quality, and performance. Day-to-day, you’ll provide visible leadership across production operations, ensuring the right resources are deployed at the right time to support critical defence programmes. Working closely with production teams, project stakeholders, and capability leaders, you'll influence strategic decision-making while helping to develop and grow the workforce of the future. This role offers the chance to make a lasting impact on national security, operational excellence, and your own career development.

• Leading and managing the daily operations of the welding hub to ensure resources are effectively deployed across submarine projects.
• Chairing planning and look-ahead meetings with stakeholders to establish priorities and ensure delivery against schedules.
• Driving productivity improvements, identifying cost-saving opportunities, and implementing process enhancements.
• Collaborating with Production Capability Managers to maintain workforce competence, skills development, and succession planning.
• Providing visible leadership across operations, ensuring safety, quality, and performance standards are consistently achieved.

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

Essential experience of the Production Hub Manager

• Experience leading and managing operational teams within a manufacturing, engineering, production, defence, marine, nuclear, or industrial environment.
• Proven ability to coordinate resources and priorities across multiple stakeholders and projects.
• Experience driving performance improvement, productivity, and operational efficiency initiatives.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to develop, motivate, and support teams with varying levels of experience.
• Experience working within safety and quality-focused environments.

Qualifications for the Production Hub Manager

• Higher National Certificate (HNC) in an engineering, manufacturing, production, or related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Additional leadership, operational management, or engineering qualifications.

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.

What we offer

• 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.
• ‘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.