Signalling Supervisor

Babcock International Group; Belfast City District; On-site; GBP 38,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP and health checks

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of professional fees

Reservists paid leave

Holiday Trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Signalling Supervisor at Milewater Road Depot, Belfast, to lead live rail signalling projects and ensure safety, quality and on-time delivery. The role combines hands-on technical work with leadership responsibilities in a fast-paced, regulated environment.

You will supervise signalling teams, manage resources, and maintain documentation, while coordinating with project teams and contractors to deliver critical rail infrastructure safely and efficiently.

Qualifications

• Signalling and telecommunications experience within rail industry.
• Experience supervising or leading teams in a rail signalling environment.
• Experience working to railway safety, quality, and operational standards.
• Experience carrying out signalling testing, maintenance, installation, or commissioning activities.

Responsibilities

• Leading and coordinating signalling teams on site.
• Monitoring quality, safety, and productivity to ensure projects meet required standards and deadlines.
• Supporting planning activities, resource allocation, and site operations.
• Completing and maintaining site records, briefings, and safe system of work documentation.
• Liaising with project teams, contractors, and stakeholders to ensure safe and efficient delivery of works.

Skills

Signalling experience

Team leadership

Railway standards

Signalling testing

Education

BS1/BS2 training

IRSE Licence (Team Leader)

Personal Track Safety

UK Driving Licence

Module 5 certification (Lead Tester)

Job description

Compensation: £44,780 + Roster Premium + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF75835

Lead critical signalling projects and make a real impact on rail safety and performance

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Signalling Supervisor at Milewater Road Depot, near Belfast.

Job Title: Signalling Supervisor

Location: Belfast, County Antrim

The role

As a Signalling Supervisor, you'll lead the delivery of safety-critical signalling works across live rail infrastructure, ensuring projects are completed safely, efficiently, and in line with operational and railway standards.

This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced signalling professional to combine hands‑on technical expertise with leadership responsibilities. You'll supervise signalling teams, support project delivery activities, coordinate resources, and play a vital role in maintaining the safe and reliable operation of railway networks.

Working in a fast‑paced and highly regulated environment, you'll have the opportunity to influence project outcomes, support operational excellence, and contribute to the successful delivery of key rail infrastructure projects.

Day-to-day, you will be:

• Leading and coordinating signalling teams on site
• Monitoring quality, safety, and productivity to ensure projects meet required standards and deadlines
• Supporting planning activities, resource allocation, and site operations
• Completing and maintaining site records, briefings, and safe system of work documentation
• Liaising with project teams, contractors, and stakeholders to ensure safe and efficient delivery of works.

Please note that the successful candidate will be required to pass a targeted medical questionnaire and/or medical examination as a condition of employment for this role.

This is a full-time, permanent role based at Milewater Road Depot, Belfast. Shift patterns operate on a 140-hour roster over four weeks, including weekend and night shifts. Overtime opportunities are available, with roster premiums paid for weekend and night working.

Essential experience of the Signalling Supervisor:

• Significant signalling and telecommunications experience within the rail industry
• Experience supervising or leading teams in a rail signalling environment
• Experience working to railway safety, quality, and operational standards
• Experience carrying out signalling testing, maintenance, installation, or commissioning activities.

Qualifications for the Signalling Supervisor:

• Completed signalling technical training, including BS1, BS2, Installation and Maintenance, Railway Relay Interlocking and other relevant signalling competencies
• SMTH and G110 Lead Tester competence with Module 5 certification
• Personal Track Safety certification for Network Rail and/or Northern Ireland Railways
• IRSE Licence at Signalling Team Leader level as a minimum, with progression towards Supervisor Licence desirable
• Full UK Driving Licence
• Good IT skills, including Microsoft Office and electronic reporting systems.

Security Clearance

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: 16/09/2026

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