Job Title: Production Support Administrator
Location: Walsall, West Midlands
Compensation: £26,864+ Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF66423
Help Keep the Nation Moving – Join a Team That Powers Defence and Engineering Excellence
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 Administrator at our Walsall site, near Birmingham, West Midlands.
The Role
As a Production Support Administrator, you’ll be at the heart of our workshop operations, helping to ensure vehicles and assets are repaired efficiently and effectively. This is a dynamic and hands-on role where your coordination and administrative skills will directly contribute to national defence and engineering excellence
Day-to-day, you’ll support workshop supervisors, streamlining processes, and liaising with internal and external stakeholders to keep operations running smoothly. You’ll also:
- Monitor incoming and outgoing assets and vehicles against operational plans
- Manage system administration, asset management, safety, and quality platforms
- Liaise with workshop supervisors to support delivery and coordination
- Communicate with internal teams (planning, procurement, finance) and external stakeholders
- Ensure compliance with safety standards and PPE requirements
This role is full time, 39 hours per week and is based on site at Walsall.
Essential experience of the Production Support Administrator:
- Proven administration experience in a workshop or similar operational environment
- Strong organisational and communication skills
- Ability to work collaboratively across teams
- Comfortable using digital systems and tools
- Attention to detail and a proactive mindset
Qualifications for the Production Support Administrator:
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
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 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 the majority of 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
- 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: 10/09/2025