Production Supervisor Structures

Babcock International; Rosyth, Dunfermline; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 47,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday allowance

Pension & life assurance

Digital GP & health check

Shopping savings portal

Professional fees paid

Reservists leave

Holiday trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock is hiring a Production Supervisor Structures at its Rosyth site. You will lead skilled production teams delivering complex structural fabrication and welding for major defence programmes, owning operational performance and safety culture.

You will translate business priorities into production plans, coordinate resources, and drive safety, quality, cost, and schedule targets. This on-site role offers development opportunities within a challenging engineering environment.

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading teams within production/manufacturing/shipbuilding/heavy engineering.
• Extensive experience of structural steel fabrication and welding.
• Ability to interpret engineering drawings, technical documentation, and production specifications.
• Strong leadership, communication, stakeholder management, and people development skills.
• Desirable: IOSH Managing Safely or equivalent health and safety qualification; ILM/CMI or similar leadership qualification.

Responsibilities

• Leading daily structural production activities to deliver contractual commitments and production objectives.
• Monitoring performance against safety, quality, cost, and schedule targets, implementing recovery plans where required.
• Coordinating people, materials, equipment, and resources to maximise productivity and operational efficiency.
• Championing a proactive safety culture and ensuring compliance with health, safety, and environmental requirements.
• Developing team capability through coaching, engagement, performance management, and workforce planning activities.

Skills

Leadership

Team leadership

Manufacturing

Safety culture

Communication

Education

ONC/HNC

Job description

Job Title: Production Supervisor Structures

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 Production Supervisor Structures at our Rosyth site.

The role

As a Production Supervisor Structures, you'll have an exciting opportunity to lead skilled production teams delivering complex structural fabrication and welding activities that are critical to major defence programmes. You'll take ownership of operational performance, champion a strong safety culture, and help develop the next generation of production professionals. If you're passionate about leadership, continuous improvement, manufacturing excellence, and making a meaningful contribution to projects of national importance, this could be the next step in your career.

Day-to-day, you'll lead day-to-day structural manufacturing operations, ensuring work is delivered safely, efficiently, and to the highest quality standards. You'll translate business priorities into achievable production plans, coordinate resources effectively, and drive performance across safety, quality, cost, and schedule objectives.

This role offers the opportunity to influence operational excellence while supporting programmes that help protect national security. You'll be empowered to develop people, improve processes, and make a lasting impact within a complex engineering and manufacturing environment.

• Leading daily structural production activities to deliver contractual commitments and production objectives.
• Monitoring performance against safety, quality, cost, and schedule targets, implementing recovery plans where required.
• Coordinating people, materials, equipment, and resources to maximise productivity and operational efficiency.
• Championing a proactive safety culture and ensuring compliance with health, safety, and environmental requirements.
• Developing team capability through coaching, engagement, performance management, and workforce planning activities.

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

Essential experience of the Production Supervisor Structures

• 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 Production Supervisor Structures

Essential

• ONC, HNC, or equivalent engineering qualification.
• Time-served engineering, manufacturing, or production background with significant relevant industry experience.

Desirable

• IOSH Managing Safely or equivalent health and safety qualification.
• ILM Level 3/5, CMI, or another recognised leadership qualification.
• Knowledge of Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement methodologies, Six Sigma, or ERP systems such as IFS.
• Experience within complex manufacturing, defence, shipbuilding, or multi-disciplined production environments.

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 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: 30/10/2026

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