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Fabrication Production Supervisor
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Job Title: Fabrication Production Supervisor
Location: Rosyth, Fife
Compensation: £44,473 - £46,874 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF75132
Lead skilled teams. Deliver complex engineering projects. Help create a safe and secure world.
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 Production Supervisor at our Rosyth site.
The role
As a Fabrication Production Supervisor, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll play a key role in leading and motivating production teams to safely deliver critical engineering and manufacturing work that supports the UK's defence capabilities. This is an opportunity to take ownership of production activities, drive performance, and contribute to high-profile marine engineering programmes while developing your leadership and operational management career.
Day-to-day, you'll be required to:
- Leading and motivating teams to safely deliver agreed production targets and work packages.
- Managing workloads to ensure work is completed to cost, quality, and schedule requirements.
- Maintaining safe working practices and ensuring compliance with company policies and procedures.
- Setting daily production objectives and monitoring performance to achieve successful delivery.
- Driving productivity, improving efficiency, and taking ownership of operational performance within your area.
Essential experience of the Fabrication Production Supervisor
- Experience supervising engineering, fabrication, manufacturing, shipbuilding, marine, or production teams.
- Knowledge of installation activities involving pumps, valves, pipework, shaft lines, engines, rudders, stabilisers, or similar mechanical systems.
- Ability to interpret and work from engineering and installation drawings.
- Strong computer skills, including Microsoft Office applications.
- Practical problem-solving skills with a proactive and common-sense approach to decision-making.
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Qualifications for the Fabrication Production Supervisor
- Time-served in a fabrication discipline with extensive recent and relevant industry experience.
- Recognised safety training, such as IOSH, Working at Height, Confined Spaces, or equivalent.
- Ordinary National Certificate or Higher National Certificate in an engineering-related discipline is desirable.
- Experience using IFS or similar enterprise resource planning systems is 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.
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.
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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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 18/08/2026
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