Job Title: CNC Machinist
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £36, + Benefits - Gross OTE £52, + Golden Hello
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
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 CNC Machinist at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a CNC Machinist, be at the heart of manufacturing bespoke, high‑integrity components for critical defence programmes. This is hands‑on, high‑precision work, producing parts to exacting standards where accuracy and attention to detail are essential.
Day-to-day, you’ll take engineering drawings from concept to completion, programming, setting and operating multi‑axis CNC turning centres to manufacture components that must perform first time, every time. It’s an exciting opportunity to apply your machining expertise in a specialist environment, develop your technical capability, and build a long‑term career within a world‑class engineering organisation.
1. Programming, setting and operating CNC multi‑axis turning centres to manufacture precision components
2. Interpreting engineering drawings and translating specifications into CNC programs
3. Producing components to fine imperial and metric tolerances using appropriate measuring equipment
4. Inspecting finished parts to ensure quality, accuracy and compliance with standards
5. Working safely and collaboratively within a controlled engineering and manufacturing environment
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential experience of the CNC Machinist
6. Experience programming and operating CNC multi‑axis turning centres
7. Ability to read and interpret detailed engineering drawings
8. Proven experience working to fine tolerances using precision measurement tools
9. Background in a manufacturing or engineering environment
10. Experience with Siemens and/or Mazak controls is advantageous
Qualifications for the CNC Machinist
11. Level 3 apprenticeship, or equivalent qualification, in an engineering or manufacturing discipline
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 Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26, 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.
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