Job Title: Production Supervisor - Mechanical Systems
Location: Rosyth, Fife
Compensation: £44,473 - £46,874 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72484
Lead the team shaping the future of UK defence engineering
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Production Supervisor - Mechanical Systems at our Rosyth site.
The role
As a Production Supervisor - Mechanical Systems, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will play a key role in delivering one of the UK’s most high‑profile defence programmes. You’ll lead and motivate teams responsible for mechanical system installation and integration on complex marine platforms - work that directly supports national security and the Royal Navy’s operational capability.
Day‑to‑day you’ll be required to:
- Lead and empower production teams to deliver mechanical installation work safely and efficiently.
- Manage daily workloads to meet cost, schedule, and quality targets.
- Maintain safe working practices and ensure adherence to company policies.
- Set daily production targets and support your teams to meet them.
- Take ownership of activity levels and resource planning across your area.
This role is full time, 36 hours per week Monday to Thursday and is based on site at Rosyth.
Essential experience of the Production Supervisor - Mechanical Systems
- Time‑served background with recent, relevant experience in a mechanical engineering discipline.
- Strong understanding of pumps, valves, pipework, shaft lines, engines, rudders and stabilisers.
- Ability to read and interpret installation drawings, including piping schematics.
- Proficient computer skills, including MS Office applications.
- Experience using IFS for bookings and progress updates (advantageous).
Qualifications for the Production Supervisor - Mechanical Systems
- Relevant mechanical discipline training or apprenticeship.
- ONC/HNC or equivalent qualification is preferred
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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 01/04/2026