Shipbuilding Functional Lead

Job Title:               Shipbuilding Functional Lead
Location:               Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation:      Competitive + Benefits
Role Type:             Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:                 SF64289

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 Shipbuilding Functional Lead at our Rosyth site.

The role
As a Shipbuilding Functional Lead, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will provide strategic guidance to enhance operations, driving improvements in productivity, resourcing, training, technology, and compliance.

Day-to-day, you’ll provide functional leadership for all personnel in the team and advise business support functions and Operations Director of operational requirements. You will also: 

• Manage and regularly review the organisation competency framework ensuring the teams have the competence and skills to allow delivery of Programme schedules. Review of pipeline activities to understand future demands. 
• Drive a Quality learning culture, recognising Best Practice and ensuring continuous implementation of improvement ideas.
• Responsible for enabling and developing improved productivity across all Operations personnel.
• Build and maintain effective liaison with Marine Sector teams, including to enable alignment and best practice in safety, quality and operational excellence.
• Ensure utilisation levels are managed and maximised across all areas of Operations.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements.

Essential experience of the Shipbuilding Functional Lead

• Demonstrable experience in project/programme delivery at a senior management level
• Leadership and change management in multi discipline environment
• Demonstrable capability and experience in manage large programmes or large site operations. 
• Demonstration of a high level of understanding of project management and controls process, tools, and techniques across complex projects
• Proven capability in successfully leading multi-discipline teams, including major sub-contractors.

Qualifications for the Shipbuilding Functional Lead

• Relevant degree (or equivalent experience)
• Membership of a recognised professional institution

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 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: 04/06/2025