Job Title: Head of Production
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF70464
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 Head of Production from Bristol to Leicester sites.
The Role
As a Head of Production, you will play a pivotal role in aligning production goals with the company’s strategic objectives, leading the production team, and collaborating with other teams and departments to meet business targets.
You’ll oversee operations at Babcock sites from Bristol to Leicester, focusing on assembly, testing, maintenance, and repair of complex equipment. Reporting to the Director of Production, you’ll lead teams in planning and delivering mission-critical products.
Your role ensures efficient, on-time, and cost-effective production while upholding quality and safety standards. You’ll align production goals with company strategy, lead the team, and collaborate across departments to achieve business targets.
- Lead and inspire production teams, driving high performance and continuous improvement.
- Shape strategy to align with company goals, market trends, and technological advancements.
- Deliver results by meeting output targets and optimising resources.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, supply chain, finance, logistics, HR, and quality teams.
- Manage planning and risk, ensuring smooth mobilisation, order book control, and mitigation of safety or supply chain issues.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with a requirement of weekly travel between sites in Bristol, Tewksbury and Leicester.
Essential Experience of the Head of Production
- Excellent leadership, communication, and collaboration skills, capable to lead and motivate a diverse team work across functions and locations.
- Strong knowledge of production processes, techniques, and industry best practices.
- Knowledge of quality management systems, health and safety regulations, and relevant industry standards.
- Experience in production based senior leadership role, with a proven track record of managing manufacturing or production delivery, engineering and/or operations would be beneficial.
Qualifications for the Head of Production
- Bachelor’s degree in manufacturing, engineering, operations management, or demonstrable experience worked in a related field
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is 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 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
- 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: 30/01/2026
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