Job Title: Fabrication Supervisor
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation: £45,627 - £49,454 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72626
Lead complex engineering work that keeps the nation safe
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 Fabrication Supervisor at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.
The role
As a Fabrication Supervisor, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll lead and manage engineering work packages that support the safe, efficient and high‑quality delivery of Fleet Engineering activities. Working within our Nuclear Repair team, you’ll coordinate multiple streams of work across vessels, ensuring safety, cost, schedule and quality requirements are consistently met.
Day‑to‑day you’ll be required to
- Leading and coordinating the delivery of engineering work packages across fleet assets
- Planning, sequencing and scheduling tasks to ensure safe, efficient delivery with minimal conflict
- Managing teams and subcontractors, ensuring capability, performance and compliance
- Promoting safety, quality and environmental standards, embedding safe systems of work
- Building strong stakeholder relationships while reporting progress and driving continuous improvement
Please note that this position involves working at height. Candidates must be able to work safely and perform tasks at varying heights.
This role is full time, 36 hours per week Monday to Thursday 07:15 – 16:45 and is based on site at HMNB Clyde Faslane.
Essential experience of the Fabrication Supervisor
- Supervisory experience within an engineering or industrial environment
- Experience working in a highly regulated industry, such as nuclear, defence, marine or heavy engineering
- Strong knowledge and application of safe systems of work
- Proven ability to collaborate with multiple stakeholders in a dynamic operational setting
- Capability to work safely at heights where required
Qualifications for the Fabrication Supervisor
- HNC in a relevant engineering discipline or equivalent trade experience and technical knowledge
- ILM Level 3 or similar leadership qualification -advantageous but not essential
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: 20/07/2026
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