Location:
Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, GB, KY11 2YD
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Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite
Job Title: Pipefitter Supervisor
Location: Rosyth, Fife
Compensation: £44,473 - £46,874 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73994
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 Pipefitter 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.
Essential experience of the Pipefitter Supervisor:
Demonstrating strong experience in pipe fitting
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
Qualifications:
Time-served pipe fitting apprenticeship or equivalent significant and recent, relevant experience
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
[email protected] 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: 31/07/26
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