About the role

  • Deputy Plant Manager at Babcock ensuring safe operations of nuclear site infrastructure and coordinating construction programs. Collaborating with engineering and maintenance teams for operational compliance.

Responsibilities

  • Lead the future of nuclear site operations and help create a safer world.
  • Play a pivotal role in supporting the safe, reliable, and continuous operation of critical nuclear site infrastructure.
  • Join the Nuclear Site Plant Management organisation, working closely with expert engineering, maintenance and operations teams to ensure essential electrical distribution systems, ancillary services and mobile crane operations run safely and efficiently.
  • Support major construction programmes across the site, ensuring electrical supplies are safely diverted and reinstated as part of complex redevelopment projects.
  • Lead cross-site coordination to ensure safe operation of electrical distribution systems and other critical services.
  • Support the delivery and ongoing management of site-wide safety cases, ensuring operational compliance.
  • Act as the interface between Plant Management teams, overseeing timely production and distribution of the submarine daily state sheet.
  • Ensure maintenance activities are planned, controlled and delivered in line with regulatory and licensing obligations.
  • Work closely with operations, maintenance, construction and regulatory stakeholders to maintain safe and compliant site operations.

Requirements

  • Demonstrable experience in plant or facility management within a regulated environment.
  • Strong background in safety case development and implementation.
  • Experience engaging with a broad range of internal, external and government stakeholders.
  • Previous involvement in plant authorisation groups - Desirable
  • Experience as a Duly Authorised Person - Desirable
  • Degree in a relevant scientific or engineering discipline (preferably Electrical Engineering).
  • Chartered Engineer status - Desirable
  • Nuclear Familiarisation course level 1–4 - Desirable
  • Security Clearance: The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) security clearance for this role.

Benefits

  • 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.
  • ‘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.

Job title

Deputy Plant Manager

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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