Job Title: Production Engineer (Gunnery)
Location: Devonport
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF51716

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 Engineer at our Devonport site.

The role
As a Production Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll support Maintenance Repair and Overhaul activities, Inventory Management, Technical and Through Life Support. Further to this the Effectors Gunnery area within the Mission Systems Business is in a state of growth, including future Type 26 and Type 31 vessels. As part of the operational management team on site, you'll be there to enable the production team to deliver the required outputs efficiently and safely, to both fiscal contract and end-user requirements.

Day to day, you'll:

• Control and update engineering support performance information with the Planning section to ensure Production led activities are undertaken to meet both customer contractual and internal milestone requirements.
• Reporting progress against schedules to the Production Leadership team to ensure delivery to plan.
• Provide support to the Senior Production Engineer to produce cost estimates for labour, materials, sub-contracts, and services (using support departments as necessary)
• Creation and maintenance of valid part numbers in the Item / Price catalogue system.
• Liaising with Technical Team on Technical Queries with respect to Supply Chain queries, Equipment concessions, Technical Data Pack queries etc
• Creation and management of Production job plans, monitoring and vetting to ensure they comply with contractual, regulatory and project requirements.
• Utilising and inputting to standard and ad-hoc reports based on PEP/IFS data to effectively enable the Production Team
• Interfacing with DA/TA and production teams identifying and reporting discrepancies and maintaining accuracy status of overhaul data pack.

This role is full time, 36 hours per week, and will be based at onsite at Devonport.

Essential experience of the Production Engineer:

• Proven Production experience
• Good knowledge of Engineering and Production processes
• Computer literate (Word, Excel, Visio, PowerPoint etc.).

Qualifications for the Production Engineer:

• Degree/ ONC/ HNS or studying towards, in an engineering discipline.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• 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 most 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.

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock International have helped to defend nations, protect communities, and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. 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.

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