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Location:
Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, GB, KY11 2YD
Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid
Job Title: Continuous Improvement Lead
Location: Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Highly Competitive Salary + 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 Continuous Improvement Lead at our Rosyth, Fife site.
The role
As a Continuous Improvement Lead, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. In this dynamic role, you will drive productivity and performance across our operational teams. Spearheading initiatives that enhance resourcing, training, technology, and compliance—unlocking new levels of efficiency and excellence.
Day-to-day, you’ll enable and develop improved productivity across all our Manufacturing Operations.
* Champion operational productivity by driving continuous improvement initiatives and aligning cross-functional teams to deliver programme milestones efficiently.
* Foster strong collaboration with Marine Sector teams to ensure best practices in safety, quality, and operational excellence are consistently applied.
* Maximise workforce utilisation across all operational areas, ensuring optimal resource deployment and performance.
* Inspire and lead a high-performing team, cultivating accountability, motivation, and professional growth to meet strategic objectives.
* Provide strategic insight and recommendations to the Project Leadership Team, influencing key decisions and programme direction.
* Identify and implement cutting-edge technologies, training, and equipment to enhance workforce capability and programme delivery.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with 3-4 days in the office at our Rosyth, Fife site and 1-2 days from home.
Essential experience of the Continuous Improvement Lead
* Experience managing large-scale operations or programmes, with knowledge of project controls, integrated business planning (demand and supply), and performance delivery.
* Proven ability to lead and inspire multi-disciplinary teams—including subcontractors—within complex, high performance operational environments.
* Demonstrated success in driving continuous improvement initiatives, including the development and implementation of KPIs and performance metrics to enhance productivity and quality.
* Strong background in change management, cost control, and earned value management, with a focus on delivering measurable outcomes.
* Strategic and operational acumen, with the ability to influence senior stakeholders, contribute to programme leadership, and embed a culture of accountability and learning.
Qualifications for the Continuous Improvement Lead
* You will be a certified Six Sigma Yellow or Green Belt, with a strong focus on continuous improvement methodologies.
* Ideally you will be degree-qualified however, we value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and 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
* 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.
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