Production Supervisor
// Role Summary
Lead and develop a production team at Babcock's Rosyth site, ensuring critical work packages are delivered safely and on schedule. Translate business priorities into operational plans for effective resource deployment.
// Key Responsibilities
- Lead day-to-day production activities to meet contractual commitments.
- Set clear priorities and coordinate activities across multiple departments.
- Monitor performance and implement recovery plans as needed.
- Champion a proactive safety culture and ensure compliance.
- Develop team capabilities through coaching and performance management.
// Role Specification
About the Role
At Babcock, we are dedicated to creating a safe and secure world. As a Production Supervisor at our Rosyth site, you will play a vital role in achieving this mission. This is an extraordinary opportunity to lead and develop a team of production professionals, ensuring the safe delivery of critical work packages against stringent safety, quality, cost, and schedule targets. You will be responsible for translating business priorities into effective operational plans, ensuring optimal deployment of people, equipment, and resources to meet production objectives.
This role offers the chance to make a significant impact by driving continuous improvement, enhancing operational performance, and fostering workforce development, all while contributing to nationally important defence programmes.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead day-to-day production activities to ensure the delivery of contractual commitments and production objectives.
- Set clear priorities and performance expectations while coordinating activities across multiple disciplines and departments.
- Monitor production performance against key targets and implement recovery plans where required.
- Champion a proactive safety culture and ensure compliance with health, safety, and environmental requirements.
- Develop team capability through coaching, performance management, engagement, and workforce planning activities.
Essential Experience
- Proven experience leading and managing teams within a production, manufacturing, engineering, shipbuilding, or industrial environment.
- Experience delivering against safety, quality, cost, and schedule targets.
- Strong understanding of health and safety legislation and safe systems of work.
- Ability to interpret engineering drawings, technical documentation, and production specifications.
- Excellent stakeholder management, communication, and people leadership skills.
Qualifications
- ONC, HNC, or equivalent engineering qualification.
- Time-served engineering, manufacturing, or production background with significant relevant industry experience.
- IOSH Managing Safely or equivalent safety qualification – desirable.
- ILM Level 3/5, CMI, or another recognised leadership qualification – desirable.
- Lean Manufacturing, Continuous Improvement, Six Sigma, ERP systems (such as IFS) or experience within complex manufacturing, shipbuilding, defence, or multi-disciplined production environments – desirable.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
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
- 10-days special paid leave for Reservists in the armed forces
- Holiday Trading: Opportunity to buy or sell annual leave
- 'Be Kind Day': One paid day per year for volunteering
About Babcock
Babcock is a global FTSE 100 organisation employing over 26,000 people. We work on products and services essential to national security and public infrastructure, from initial design to final decommissioning. We are committed to building a future that lasts and supporting meaningful careers with a focus on work-life balance, which we call lifetime engineering.
We are a disability confident committed employer and welcome applications from all. We are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements.