Location:
Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL2 2BG
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Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite
Job Title: Production Support Operative
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £23,200 - £24,900 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74880
Help Keep the Heart of Defence Operations Running
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Production Support Operative at Devonport Royal Dockyard, near Plymouth, Devon.
The Role
As a Production Support Operative, you’ll be at the core of maintaining operational excellence at one of the UK’s most critical defence sites. You’ll work hands-on with specialist cleaning equipment and chemicals to ensure our facilities meet the highest standards of safety and cleanliness. This is a vital role that supports the wider engineering and nuclear operations, helping to keep our submarines and naval assets mission ready.
Day-to-day, you’ll use cleaning chemicals and equipment while ensuring strict adherence to health and safety regulations.
Using specialist cleaning chemicals and equipment to maintain plant and facilities
Cleaning and decontaminating sensitive areas across the site
Operating industrial cleaning machinery safely and efficiently
Following strict health and safety protocols at all times
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential experience of the Production Support Operative:
Willingness to work at height and in confined spaces
Positive attitude towards health and safety, with the confidence to challenge unsafe practices
Ability to work effectively in a team and follow detailed procedures
Qualifications for the Production Support Operative:
Full clean UK driving licence
Counterbalance FLT licence is desirable, but training will be provided
MEWP operator certification or willingness to train
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 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
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
[email protected] 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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