Fabrication and Welding Supervisor

Babcock; Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP / DigiCare+

Shopping portal

Payment of Professional Fees

10 days Reservists leave

Holiday trading facility

Be Kind Day

Job summary

At Babcock, a Fabrication and Welding Supervisor role is based on our Rosyth site. You’ll lead a production team to safely deliver critical work packages against safety, quality, cost and schedule targets, driving improvement and workforce development.

Role requires extensive experience in fabrication and welding, with strong leadership, drawing on heritage in defence and heavy engineering. Onsite work at Rosyth with health and safety at the core.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading teams within a production, manufacturing, shipbuilding, or heavy engineering environment.
• Extensive experience of structural steel fabrication and welding processes.
• Demonstrable success delivering against safety, quality, cost, and schedule targets.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, technical documentation, and production specifications.
• Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and people development skills.

Responsibilities

• Leading day-to-day production activities to ensure delivery of contractual commitments and ship structural production objectives.
• Monitoring structural production performance against key targets and implementing recovery plans where required.
• Setting clear priorities and performance expectations while coordinating activities across multiple disciplines and departments.
• Championing a proactive safety culture and ensuring compliance with health, safety and environmental requirements.
• Developing team capability through coaching, performance management, engagement and workforce planning activities.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Safety culture

Communication

Problem solving

Education

ONC/ HNC engineering qualification

Job description

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Fabrication and Welding Supervisor

Location: Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, GB, KY11 2YD

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Job Title: Fabrication and Welding Supervisor

Location: Rosyth, Fife

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76685

Lead Structural Production That Supports National Defence

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 Fabrication and Welding Supervisor at our Rosyth site.

The role

As a Fabrication and Welding Supervisor, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll be responsible for leading and developing a team of production professionals to safely deliver critical work packages against safety, quality, cost and schedule targets. You'll translate business priorities into operational plans, ensuring people, equipment and resources are deployed effectively to achieve production objectives.

This role offers the opportunity to make a genuine impact, driving continuous improvement, operational performance and workforce development while contributing to nationally important defence programmes.

Day-to-day you'll be required to:

• Leading day-to-day production activities to ensure delivery of contractual commitments and ship structural production objectives.
• Monitoring structural production performance against key targets and implementing recovery plans where required.
• Setting clear priorities and performance expectations while coordinating activities across multiple disciplines and departments.
• Championing a proactive safety culture and ensuring compliance with health, safety and environmental requirements.
• Developing team capability through coaching, performance management, engagement and workforce planning activities.

This role is full time, 36 hours per week and is based on site at Rosyth.

Essential experience of the Fabrication and Welding Supervisor

• Proven experience leading teams within a production, manufacturing, shipbuilding, or heavy engineering environment.
• Extensive experience of structural steel fabrication and welding processes.
• Demonstrable success delivering against safety, quality, cost, and schedule targets.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, technical documentation, and production specifications.
• Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and people development skills.

Qualifications for the Fabrication and Welding Supervisor

• ONC, HNC, or equivalent engineering qualification.
• Time-served engineering, manufacturing, or production background with significant relevant industry experience.
• IOSH Managing Safely or equivalent health and safety qualification – desirable
• ILM Level 3/5, CMI, or another recognised leadership qualification – desirable
• Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement, Six Sigma, ERP systems (such as IFS) or experience within complex manufacturing, shipbuilding, defence or multi-disciplined production environments – desirable

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 (www.gov.uk) .

What we offer

• 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 29,000 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 [e-mail] 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.

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