Chief Welding & Development Engineer

Babcock International

Rosyth, Dunfermline

Hybrid

GBP 75,000 - 85,000

Full time

3 days ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance
Pension with life assurance
Access to a Digital GP
Employee shopping portal
Payment of Professional Fees
Reservists leave (10 days)
Holiday Trading
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Job summary

Babcock invites applications for Head of Welding and Development at its Rosyth site. The role leads welding capability, champions automation and sets technical direction for welding across complex defence and infrastructure projects.

You will provide strategic and operational leadership, drive standards, and collaborate with senior stakeholders to ensure safety, quality and productivity improvements. Hybrid pattern available.

Qualifications

  • Experience developing and implementing welding strategies in complex environments.
  • Strong leadership of welding engineering or development teams.
  • Expertise in welding governance, standards and quality improvement.
  • Experience delivering capability development and workforce training.
  • Proven ability to support audits with senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and deliver the welding strategy aligned to production needs.
  • Lead and manage welding engineers and technicians.
  • Drive innovation with new welding technologies and automation.
  • Manage welding standards, specs, investigations and improvement initiatives.
  • Collaborate with Production, Engineering, Quality and HSE to meet compliance.

Skills

Leadership
Welding governance
Root cause analysis
Workforce development

Education

Degree in Welding Engineering
IWT/EWT qualification
IEng registration

Tools

MIG/MAG welding
TIG welding
MMA welding
FCAW welding
SAW welding

Job description

Babcock invites applications for Head of Welding and Development at its Rosyth site. The role leads welding capability, champions automation and sets technical direction for welding across complex defence and infrastructure projects.

You will provide strategic and operational leadership, drive standards, and collaborate with senior stakeholders to ensure safety, quality and productivity improvements. Hybrid pattern available.

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