Shipbuilding Operations Strategy Lead

Babcock • Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, GB, KY11 2YD • 4d ago

Job Title: Shipbuilding Operations Strategy Lead

Location: Rosyth, Fife

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF70807

Lead the delivery of a next‑generation naval programme.

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 Shipbuilding Operations Strategy Lead at our Rosyth site.

The role

As a Shipbuilding Operations Strategy Lead, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a pivotal leadership role within our Type 31 Programme - one of the UK's most exciting and strategic naval shipbuilding projects. You will shape the successful delivery of core construction activities, influencing productivity, quality, and safety standards across a major defence engineering programme. This is a highly visible position where your expertise and leadership will have a meaningful impact on national security, operational capability, and the long-term growth of your career.

Day‑to‑day you’ll be required to:

Lead and oversee all Build, Commissioning, and Quality Control activities within the Core Delivery Stream.
Drive productivity improvements and foster a strong safety and quality culture across the Type 31 Programme.
Manage the Delivery organisation to ensure alignment with schedules, milestones, and programme priorities.
Build strong relationships with internal engineering, planning, quality and production teams to enable seamless project delivery.
Promote continuous improvement, recognising best practice and implementing new ways of working.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Rosyth.

Essential experience of the Shipbuilding Operations Strategy Lead

Significant experience delivering complex shipbuilding or major marine engineering programmes
Strong understanding of project management and controls processes, tools, and techniques
Proven leadership capability, managing multi‑discipline teams and subcontractors
Experience in driving and managing change across complex environments
Senior‑level planning and budgeting experience - desirable

Qualifications for the Shipbuilding Operations Strategy Lead

Relevant degree or equivalent professional 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 share scheme
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
Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

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: 12/06/2026

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