Welding and Fabrication Production Supervisor

Job Title:                      Welding and Fabrication Production Supervisor

Location:                      Rosyth, Fife  

Compensation:            £44,473 - £46,874 + Benefits

Role Type:                    Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                         SF70062

Lead the Future of Defence Engineering

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 Welding and Fabrication Production Supervisor at our Rosyth site.

The role

As a Welding and Fabrication Production Supervisor, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll lead and motivate a team of skilled operators to deliver complex fabrication projects that support the Royal Navy’s Type 31 programme. This is your opportunity to make a tangible impact on national security while advancing your career in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.

Day-to-day you’ll be:

• Leading and motivating teams to achieve production targets safely and efficiently.
• Managing workloads to meet contract requirements for cost, time, and quality.
• Ensuring compliance with health, safety, and environmental standards.
• Driving continuous improvement by eliminating waste and improving value-add processes.
• Taking ownership of activity levels and resource allocation within your area.

This role is full time, 36 hours per week Monday to Thursday (7:30 am – 5:00 pm), with occasional overtime on Fridays or Sundays and is based on site at Rosyth.

Essential experience of the Welding and Fabrication Production Supervisor

• Ability to read and interpret technical drawings and communicate technical requirements.
• Skilled in working with metric dimensions to tight tolerances.
• Experience with laser leveling and working to datum points.
• Background in heavy steel fabrication.
• Strong understanding of technical drawings.

Qualifications for the Welding and Fabrication Production Supervisor

• Time-served with extensive recent experience in fabrication and welding.
• Formal fabrication or shipbuilding technical qualifications.

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: 16/12/2025