Job Title: Production Manager
Location: Walsall, West Midlands
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF67037
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 Manager at our Walsall site.
The role
As a Production Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Join our senior operational management team and play a pivotal role in driving performance and safety on site. You’ll be responsible for strategically managing operational resources to deliver output in line with current plans and any evolving requirements. This role involves making key prioritisation decisions to optimise resource allocation and ensure targets are met efficiently and safely
Day-to-day, you’ll use your expertise and business critical indicators to make informed decisions that support the smooth running of the vehicle production line, ensuring client demand is consistently met. You'll also:
- Ensuring outputs are delivered against plans provided and managing and prioritising resource allocation to meet delivery plan
- Ensuring health and safety standards are followed including use of personal protective equipment (PPE), safe working areas, near miss reporting and accident reporting
- Ensuring management chain is notified of risks of meeting output plan as soon as is apparent
- Managing their people using supporting processes/policies
- Ensuring company processes are regularly reviewed and submit suggested amendments where appropriate
This role is full time, 40 hours per week and is based on site at Walsall.
Essential experience of the Production Manager:
- Proven experience within automotive production
- Demonstrated leadership experience
- Competent PC user (MS Office, MS Outlook, SharePoint)
Qualifications for the Production Manager:
- Educated to Level 4 in National Qualification Framework (NQF) as a minimum (Higher apprenticeship, HNC, Level 4 NVQ) or equivalent workplace experience
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) and NPPV 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 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. 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
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has 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.
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.
Closing date: 03/09/2025