Fabrication Supervisor

Babcock International Group; Helensburgh; On-site; GBP 46,000 - 49,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Digital GP and health checks

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Reservists 10 days special paid leave

Holiday Trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Fabrication Supervisor at HMNB Clyde Faslane. You will lead and manage engineering work packages that support safe, efficient, high‑quality delivery within our Nuclear Repair team across vessels, coordinating multiple work streams while ensuring safety, cost, schedule and quality compliance.

This full‑time (36 hours/week, Mon–Thu 07:15–16:45) role is on site. You will supervise teams, manage subcontractors, and drive continuous improvement in a highly regulated setting,

Qualifications

• Supervisory experience within an engineering or industrial environment.
• Experience in highly regulated industries such as nuclear, defence, marine or heavy engineering.
• Strong knowledge and application of safe systems of work.
• Ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders in a dynamic operational setting.
• Capability to work safely at heights where required.

Responsibilities

• Plan, sequence and schedule tasks to ensure safe, efficient delivery.
• Lead and coordinate engineering work packages across fleet assets.
• Manage teams and subcontractors, ensuring capability, performance and compliance.
• Promote safety, quality and environmental standards and safe systems of work.
• Build strong stakeholder relationships and report progress.

Skills

Supervisory experience

Regulated industry experience

Safe systems of work

Stakeholder management

Work at heights

Education

HNC in a relevant engineering discipline

ILM Level 3 leadership qualification

Job description

Compensation

£45,627 - £49,454 + Benefits

Role Type

Full time / Permanent

Role ID

SF72626

Lead complex engineering work that keeps the nation safe

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 Supervisor at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.

Job Title

Fabrication Supervisor

Location

Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute

The role

As a Fabrication Supervisor, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll lead and manage engineering work packages that support the safe, efficient and high‑quality delivery of Fleet Engineering activities. Working within our Nuclear Repair team, you’ll coordinate multiple streams of work across vessels, ensuring safety, cost, schedule and quality requirements are consistently met.

Day‑to‑day you’ll be required to

• Planning, sequencing and scheduling tasks to ensure safe, efficient delivery with minimal conflict
• Leading and coordinating the delivery of engineering work packages across fleet assets
• Managing teams and subcontractors, ensuring capability, performance and compliance
• Promoting safety, quality and environmental standards, embedding safe systems of work
• Building strong stakeholder relationships while reporting progress and driving continuous improvement

Please note that this position involves working at height. Candidates must be able to work safely and perform tasks at varying heights.

This role is full time, 36 hours per week Monday to Thursday 07:15 – 16:45 and is based on site at HMNB Clyde Faslane.

Essential Experience Of The Fabrication Supervisor

• Supervisory experience within an engineering or industrial environment
• Experience working in a highly regulated industry, such as nuclear, defence, marine or heavy engineering
• Strong knowledge and application of safe systems of work
• Proven ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders in a dynamic operational setting
• Capability to work safely at heights where required

Qualifications For The Fabrication Supervisor

• HNC in a relevant engineering discipline or equivalent trade experience and technical knowledge
• ILM Level 3 or similar leadership qualification -advantageous but not essential

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 26,000 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.

Closing date: 08/09/2026

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