Painting Hub Manager

Job Title: Painting Hub Manager

Location: Plymouth, Devon

Compensation: £44,600 - £55,800 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF75012

Lead a New Team. Drive Operational Excellence. Help Deliver Critical Submarine Programmes.

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 Painting Hub Manager at our Plymouth, Devon site.

The role

As a Painting Hub Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll have a unique opportunity to establish and lead a newly created Painting Hub that supports some of the UK's most important submarine programmes. This is an exciting leadership role where you'll shape a new operating model, build capability, develop people, and drive performance across painting and industrial cleaning activities.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to

• Lead the daily operation and development of the Painting Hub, ensuring resources are effectively deployed to support project priorities.
• Chair plan and look-ahead meetings with key stakeholders to agree workload priorities and delivery schedules.
• Manage team performance, capability development and workforce planning to maintain a skilled and effective workforce.
• Drive continuous improvement initiatives to reduce costs, minimise waste and improve productivity and quality.
• Collaborate with project teams, production managers and capability leaders to deliver safe, efficient and high-quality outcomes.

This role is full time and based at Devonport Royal Dockyard, Plymouth.

Essential experience of the Painting Hub Manager

• Previous experience leading and managing teams with varying levels of skill and experience.
• Experience within industrial painting, industrial cleaning, facilities maintenance or related operational environments.
• Proven ability to plan, prioritise and allocate resources to meet operational demands.
• Experience working with multiple stakeholders and communicating effectively across different teams.
• Demonstrable track record of driving performance improvements, productivity and operational efficiency.
• Computer literate with proficiency in Microsoft Office applications and business systems.

Qualifications for the Painting Hub Manager

Essential

• Experience and capability to successfully manage operational teams in a production, maintenance or industrial environment.

Desirable

• Chartered Management Institute Level 7 qualification or equivalent management qualification.
• Nuclear Plant Foundation Course Module 1 (training can be provided).
• IOSH Managing Safety Certification
• Level 3 Painting Qualification or equivalent

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 (

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 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: 20/08/2026

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