Job Title: Production Manager
Location: Telford, Shropshire
Compensation: £25, £27, Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF71655
Lead operational teams, optimise resources and deliver critical production output for a major Defence programme.
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 Manager at our Donnington site, supporting the effective delivery of the Land sector's operational output.
The role
As Production Manager, you will ensure that production plans are delivered safely, efficiently and to target. You'll manage operational resources, oversee allocation and prioritisation of work, and ensure spend is controlled against plan. This role is key to maintaining operational readiness and driving continuous improvement across the business.
Day-to-day, you'll be:
Managing operational teams and supporting the full employee lifecycle, from recruitment to offboarding.
Allocating and prioritising resource to deliver production plans on time and within agreed constraints.
Monitoring and controlling spend against delivery requirements.
Making effective decisions based on available information and operational needs.
Driving performance, maintaining safe working practices and ensuring compliance with company and regulatory standards.
This role is full time working 37 hours per week and is based on site at DSG Donnington, Shropshire, with the option to work a 9-day fortnight.
Essential experience of the Production Manager:
Ability to lead and manage individuals and teams.
Comfortable challenging and holding difficult conversations when required.
Strong decision‑making skills using available data and judgement.
Experience managing allocated budgets.
Ability to prioritise effectively with limited resources.
Qualifications for the Production Manager:
Educated to Level 4 within the National Qualification Framework (HNC, Higher Apprenticeship, Level 4 NVQ or equivalent 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 ) .
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 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: 10/03/2026