Fabrication Supervisor
// Role Summary
Lead critical engineering work packages within the Nuclear Repair team at HMNB Clyde Faslane, ensuring the safe, efficient, and high-quality delivery of Fleet Engineering activities. This role offers a chance to contribute to national security while managing teams and subcontractors in a dynamic environment.
// Key Responsibilities
- Supervise complex engineering work packages for Fleet Engineering.
- Manage teams and subcontractors, ensuring performance and compliance.
- Promote high standards of safety, quality, and environmental practice.
- Collaborate with multiple stakeholders in a regulated, operational setting.
- Must be able to work safely at height.
- Requires SC security clearance.
// Role Specification
Fabrication Supervisor - HMNB Clyde Faslane
Join Babcock at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site and play a vital role in creating a safe and secure world as a Fabrication Supervisor. This is an out-of-the-ordinary role where you will lead complex engineering work that keeps the nation safe.
About the Role
As a Fabrication Supervisor within our Nuclear Repair team, you will lead and manage engineering work packages. Your focus will be on the safe, efficient, and high-quality delivery of Fleet Engineering activities. You will coordinate multiple work streams across vessels, ensuring all safety, cost, schedule, and quality requirements are consistently met.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate the delivery of engineering work packages across fleet assets.
- Plan, sequence, and schedule tasks to ensure safe, efficient delivery with minimal conflict.
- Manage teams and subcontractors, ensuring capability, performance, and compliance.
- Promote safety, quality, and environmental standards, embedding safe systems of work.
- Build strong stakeholder relationships, reporting progress and driving continuous improvement.
Please note: This position involves working at height. Candidates must be able to work safely and perform tasks at varying heights.
Role Details
- Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
- Role Type: Full time / Permanent
- Hours: 36 hours per week, Monday to Thursday 07:15 – 16:45
- Compensation: £45,627 - £49,454 + Benefits
- Role ID: SF72626
Essential Experience and Qualifications
- Supervisory experience within an engineering or industrial environment.
- Experience working in a highly regulated industry (e.g., nuclear, defence, marine, heavy engineering).
- Strong knowledge and application of safe systems of work.
- Proven ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders in a dynamic operational setting.
- Capability to work safely at heights where required.
- HNC in a relevant engineering discipline or equivalent trade experience and technical knowledge.
- ILM Level 3 or similar leadership qualification (advantageous but not essential).
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Eligibility may be affected by place of birth, nationality, citizenship, and residency. More details can be found at GOV.UK.
What We Offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance
- Access to Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Special paid leave for Reservists
- Holiday Trading options
- ‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering
About Babcock
Babcock is a global FTSE 100 organisation committed to making a difference. Your work will contribute to essential products and services for national security and public infrastructure, building a future that lasts. We offer meaningful careers and respect work-life balance, calling it 'lifetime engineering'.
We are a disability confident committed employer and welcome applications. We are happy to discuss flexible working. Please contact [email protected] for reasonable adjustments.
Closing date: 20/07/2026