Fabrication and Welding Supervisor

WeServed; Rosyth; Presencial; GBP 44.000 - 47.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Generous holiday allowance

Pension scheme with life assurance

Digital GP and health checks

Employee shopping portal

Professional Fees paid

Reservists leave

Holiday Trading

Be Kind Day

Descripción de la vacante

Babcock is seeking a Fabrication and Welding Supervisor for its Rosyth site in Fife. You will lead a team of production professionals to safely deliver critical work packages, translating business priorities into actionable plans while ensuring resources are deployed effectively to hit targets.

You will drive continuous improvement and workforce development, contributing to nationally important defence programmes.

Formación

• Experience leading teams in production/manufacturing/shipbuilding or heavy engineering.
• Extensive experience with structural steel fabrication and welding.
• Proven track record delivering safety, quality, cost and schedule targets.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, technical docs and production specs.
• Strong leadership, communication and stakeholder management.

Responsabilidades

• Lead day-to-day production activities to deliver contractual commitments and ship structural objectives.
• Monitor production performance against targets and implement recovery plans.
• Set clear priorities and coordinate activities across multiple departments.
• Champion a proactive safety culture and ensure health and environmental compliance.
• Develop team capability through coaching, performance management and workforce planning.

Conocimientos

Leadership

Structural welding

Reading drawings

Safety compliance

People development

Educación

ONC/ HNC or equivalent

Herramientas

IFS ERP

Descripción del empleo

Job Title: Fabrication and Welding Supervisor

Location: Rosyth, Fife

Compensation: £44,473 - £46,874 + Benefits

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

• 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 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 [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.

Closing date: 18/11/2026

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