Production Hub Manager

Production Hub Manager

Job Title: Production Hub Manager

Location: Plymouth, Devon

Compensation: 44,600 - 55,800+ Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74921

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

• Essential: Higher National Certificate (HNC) in an engineering, manufacturing, production, or related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• Desirable: Nuclear Plant Foundation Course Module 1.

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 positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. Your eligibility may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, citizenship, or residency. Further details are available at UK 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, allowing employees to buy or sell additional leave with an annual window
• 'Be Kind Day' for volunteering leave
• Development opportunities and wellbeing support programs

About 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 contributes to products and services vital to national security and infrastructure. We are committed to building an inclusive culture and supporting flexible working options. We are a disability confident employer. If you need reasonable adjustments or have questions about flexible work, please contact us during the application process.

Closing date: 20/08/######

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