Ship Mechanical Discipline Lead

Job Title:                     Ship Mechanical Discipline Lead

Location:                     Rosyth, Dunfermline

Compensation:            Competitive + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF64735

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 Ship Mechanical Discipline Lead at our Rosyth site.

The role

As a Ship Mechanical Discipline Lead, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll join the T31 project and develop mechanical production strategies ahead of the Ship 2 build and throughout, including supporting the builds of the next Ships.

Day-to-day, you’ll

• Setting production strategy, standards and targets to ensure that packages of work are completed on time and on budget and ensuring that only authorised work is undertaken in alignment with project controls.
• Take ownership of the quality and schedule delivery of total delegated work package and strive to deliver efficiency improvement. Cost will be an outcome of the above.
• Ensure that sufficient control mechanisms and performance indicators are in place to measure performance and highlight variance. Involvement in the understanding of Budget and the setting of “norms”.
• Identify and agree resource requirements against the plan and budget and conduct weekly reviews to accurately forecast resource requirements in line with overall project resource plan and the Integrated Business Review (IBR) process.
• Identification of Lessons learned back into the business processes.

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

Essential experience of the Ship Mechanical Discipline Lead

• A background in a mechanical trade would be an advantage.
• Experience in project management, project controls, budgets and commercial Terms and Conditions
• Full construction lifecycle experience from manufacturing through to commissioning.
• Proficient knowledge/application of ERP toolsets eg IFS/SAP etc…
• Recent and relevant experience within Marine (or Oil & Gas)

Qualifications for the Ship Mechanical Discipline Lead

• ONC in a relevant construction trade as a minimum or an engineering qualification.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) 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 share scheme 
• 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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International 
For over a century Babcock  has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal. 

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: 04/07/2025