Job Title: Mechanical Production Supervisor
Location: Rosyth, Fife
Compensation: £44,473 - £46,874 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73232
Lead high-performing teams to deliver critical engineering projects that protect and power our future
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 Mechanical Production Supervisor at our Rosyth site.
The role
As a Mechanical Production Supervisor, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll lead and motivate a team of skilled operatives to safely deliver defined packages of work to exacting quality, time and cost standards. This is an exciting opportunity to take ownership of production activities, drive efficiency improvements and play a key role in delivering major engineering projects that make a real difference.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
* Leading and motivating a team to safely deliver production work to agreed targets and standards
* Managing workloads to meet contract requirements across cost, quality and delivery timescales
* Ensuring compliance with health, safety and environmental policies and maintaining a safe working environment
* Setting and monitoring daily production targets to drive performance and accountability
* Taking ownership of operational activity levels and continuously improving efficiency
This role is full time, 36 hours per week and is based on site at Rosyth.
Essential experience of the Mechanical Production Supervisor
* Demonstrating experience supervising teams in a mechanical or production environment
* Managing resources effectively to deliver work within time, cost and quality constraints
* Applying strong knowledge of safe working practices within an engineering setting
* Driving performance through setting targets and monitoring output
* Taking responsibility for production areas and maintaining high operational standards
Qualifications for the Mechanical Production Supervisor
* Time-served with extensive, recent and relevant experience in a mechanical discipline
* ONC or HNC (or equivalent) in a related engineering subject – preferred but not essential
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 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
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: 27/05/2026
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