Job Title: Senior Automotive Production Engineer
Location: Walsall, West Midlands
Compensation: Competitive Salary Dependent on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF70869
Drive manufacturing excellence in a complex automotive environment
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Production Engineer within Babcock Vehicle Engineering, helping to design, implement and optimise manufacturing processes that support high‑quality, efficient vehicle production.
This role is based on site in Walsall and offers the opportunity to lead engineering activity within a highly regulated and technically demanding production environment.
The role
As a Senior Production Engineer, you’ll be responsible for shaping and improving production processes across the manufacturing lifecycle. You’ll provide technical leadership, manage change within production planning, and support both production and project teams to deliver safe, efficient and high‑quality outcomes.
You’ll also take responsibility for managing the engineering function and leading a small team of engineers, ensuring standards, performance and continuous improvement remain central to everything you do.
Day-to-day, you will be:
- Designing, implementing and optimising manufacturing and production processes within an automotive environment.
- Leading the engineering function, providing direction, technical support and guidance to engineers.
- Supporting project and production teams with process development, accurate costings and product improvement initiatives.
- Identifying and delivering process improvement opportunities to enhance efficiency, quality and safety.
- Managing change control within production planning and ensuring adherence to engineering standards and specifications.
- Evaluating technical and operational risks and implementing effective mitigation actions.
This is a full‑time, permanent role, working 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday.
Essential experience of the Senior Production Engineer:
- Proven experience in automotive manufacturing or a related production environment.
- Strong background in lean manufacturing, process optimisation and quality systems.
- Experience working with CAD software and interpreting engineering drawings.
- Demonstrated ability to support and influence production and project teams.
Qualifications for the Senior Production Engineer:
- Qualification in Mechanical, Industrial, Automotive, or Manufacturing Engineering (or related field). Or equivalent Industrial Experience.
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 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: 04/05/2026