First Line Manager Pipe Fitter
// Role Summary
Lead a skilled team of pipe fitters on critical submarine projects, utilizing your technical expertise and leadership abilities to ensure high-quality, safe, and timely engineering outputs. This hands-on role offers a unique opportunity to work at the forefront of national defence engineering.
// Key Responsibilities
- Lead and develop a team of experienced pipe fitters.
- Manage repair, maintenance, and upgrade activities on advanced submarine platforms.
- Ensure compliance with health, safety, and environmental standards.
- Support team development through coaching and performance management.
- Collaborate with engineering, production, and project teams.
- Requires ONC/NVQ Level 3 in a relevant engineering discipline and SC security clearance.
// Role Specification
First Line Manager Pipe Fitter
Join Babcock at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site and play a vital role in creating a safe and secure world as a First Line Manager Pipe Fitter. This is a hands-on leadership position where you will guide and develop a highly skilled team in performing complex pipe fitting work on some of the UK’s most advanced submarine platforms. Your technical proficiency and people management skills are crucial for delivering engineering outputs that are of high quality, safe, and completed on schedule, directly supporting national defence.
Role Responsibilities:
- Leading and supervising a team of pipe fitters delivering repair, maintenance, and installation activities.
- Planning and allocating work to meet programme, quality, and safety requirements.
- Ensuring all activities comply with health, safety, and environmental standards.
- Supporting team development through coaching, performance management, and skills growth.
- Working closely with engineering, production, and project teams to deliver complex submarine work scopes.
About You:
We are looking for individuals with proven experience as a pipe fitter in manufacturing, repair, or heavy engineering environments. A strong understanding of health and safety practices in production or engineering settings is essential. While previous team supervision experience is valued, we are also keen to hear from candidates with the motivation and capability to step into a leadership role. Your background should include experience in repair, replacement, overhaul, or maintenance activities. Crucially, you will possess strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively lead, motivate, and engage a skilled workforce.
Qualifications:
- ONC or NVQ Level 3 in a relevant mechanical or engineering discipline.
- ILM Level 3 and IOSH qualifications are desirable (training can be provided).
Security Clearance:
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National and able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Eligibility may be affected by place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and residency.
What We Offer:
This permanent, full-time role (35 hours per week) comes with a salary of £41,700 plus benefits. You will enjoy a generous holiday allowance, a matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance, access to a Digital GP, annual health checks, and nutritional consultations. Other benefits include an employee share scheme, shopping savings portal, payment of professional fees, and special paid leave for reservists. We also offer holiday trading, a 'Be Kind Day' for volunteering, and excellent development opportunities with a comprehensive benefits package including an employee assistance programme.
Babcock is a global FTSE 100 organisation committed to creating a safe and secure world. We are a disability confident committed employer and encourage applications from all backgrounds. We are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements.