Pipe Fitter Production Supervisor

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:

• Leading and motivating teams to safely deliver defined packages of pipe fitting and production work
• Managing resources to meet cost, quality, and delivery targets across projects
• Ensuring safe systems of work and maintaining a compliant, secure working environment
• Setting daily production targets and monitoring performance to drive continuous improvement
• 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.


• Demonstrating strong experience in pipe fitting, including installation of pumps, valves, pipework, and associated marine systems
• Reading and interpreting technical installation drawings and engineering specifications
• Using digital tools such as Microsoft Office to support reporting and planning
• Applying practical knowledge of production environments within engineering, marine, or heavy industry settings
• Bringing proven experience overseeing or guiding teams in a production or workshop environment, Time-served pipe fitting apprenticeship or equivalent with significant recent, relevant experience
• 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.

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., 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.

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