Jobs in Newton Abbot

Newton Abbot is a market town of around 25,000 people in the Teignbridge district of south Devon, at the head of the Teign estuary between Dartmoor and the coast. It grew up as a railway and clay town, and both still shape the job market: manufacturing and engineering on the industrial estates, alongside a large share of retail, care and tourism work tied to the surrounding rural area and Torbay.

Two of the larger employers sit next to each other on Shaldon Road (TQ12 4SQ). Centrax builds industrial gas turbine generating sets and employs over 250 people. The neighbouring turbine-components plant, which makes machined aero-engine and gas-turbine parts, now trades as MB Aerospace Newton Abbot, part of Barnes Aerospace, and runs to a few hundred staff. Clay is the other long-standing industry: Sibelco operates the ball-clay deposits at Kingsteignton, and Imerys also works the Devon ball clays across several sites and processing plants. Trago Mills' Stover store (TQ12 6JD) is a large retail and warehouse employer, and Newton Abbot Community Hospital on Jetty Marsh Road provides NHS work under Torbay and South Devon NHS Foundation Trust. Most other vacancies come off the business and industrial estates — Heathfield, Brunel, Decoy, Wharf Road and Bradley Lane — where firms tend to be SMEs in precision engineering, food production, fabrication and trade supply.

Transport: Newton Abbot is on the Great Western main line, with the fastest trains reaching London Paddington in about two hours twenty, Exeter St Davids in roughly 20 minutes, and frequent CrossCountry and GWR services on to Plymouth. The A38 Devon Expressway runs along the northern edge at Drumbridges, linking Exeter (M5) and Plymouth, and the A380 South Devon Highway drops down to Torbay from the Penn Inn junction. Postcodes: TQ12 covers the town and surrounding villages including Kingsteignton and Heathfield; TQ13 takes in Bovey Tracey, Chudleigh and Ashburton on the Dartmoor side.