Job Title: Pipe Fitter Production Supervisor
Location: Rosyth, Fife
Compensation: £44, - £46, + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Lead High Performing Teams Building Critical Naval Infrastructure
At Babcock, we are working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Pipe Fitter Production Supervisor at our Rosyth site.
The role
As a Pipe Fitter Production Supervisor, you will lead and inspire a team of skilled tradespeople, ensuring the safe, efficient delivery of critical shipbuilding and engineering work. This is a hands-on leadership role where your decisions directly impact safety, performance, and programme success.
Day-to-day, you’ll be responsible for:
1. Leading and motivating teams to safely deliver defined packages of pipe fitting and production work
2. Managing resources to meet cost, quality, and delivery targets across projects
3. Ensuring safe systems of work and maintaining a compliant, secure working environment
4. Setting daily production targets and monitoring performance to drive continuous improvement
5. Taking ownership of operational activity, ensuring attendance, standards, and behaviours are consistently met
This role is full time, 36 hours per week Monday to Thursday, and is based on-site at Rosyth.
Essential experience of the Pipe Fitter Production Supervisor:
6. Demonstrating strong experience in pipe fitting, including installation of pumps, valves, pipework, and associated marine systems
7. Reading and interpreting technical installation drawings and engineering specifications
8. Using digital tools such as Microsoft Office to support reporting and planning
9. Applying practical knowledge of production environments within engineering, marine, or heavy industry settings
10. Bringing proven experience overseeing or guiding teams in a production or workshop environment
Qualifications:
11. Time-served pipe fitting apprenticeship or equivalent with significant recent, relevant experience
12. ONC or HNC in an engineering discipline is desirable
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 Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26, 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.
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