Pipefitter Supervisor

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Babcock is seeking a Pipefitter Supervisor to lead a Rosyth team delivering naval infrastructure focused on safety. The role is full-time, 36 hours per week, Monday to Thursday, with a salary of £44,473 to £46,874 plus benefits. You’ll manage resources, set targets, monitor performance and maintain safe systems of work while driving continuous improvement. Essential experience includes proven pipe fitting ability, reading technical drawings, using Office for planning, and leadership in a production environment; a time-served pipe fitting apprenticeship is required and SC clearance is needed. To apply, tailor your CV to show leadership and safety outcomes, cite measurable improvements, confirm security clearance eligibility and flexible working patterns, and note the closing date 31 July 2026. For adjustments, email [email protected].

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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