Shipbuild Completions Manager in Dunfermline

Location: Rosyth, Fife – Hybrid Working Available

Compensation: £56,000 - £66,000

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Lead the completion of complex naval programmes that help protect the UK and create a safer, more secure world. At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Shipbuild Completions Manager at Rosyth, near Dunfermline, Fife. This is your opportunity to take a leading role in one of the UK's most significant marine engineering and shipbuilding programmes. Working at the heart of a highly skilled team, you'll help drive delivery, performance, and operational excellence, ensuring complex shipbuilding activities are completed safely, efficiently, and to the highest standards.

The role:

• As a Shipbuild Completions Manager, you'll be responsible for managing operational compartment completions in line with project acceptance strategies, helping to deliver critical defence capability for the nation.
• You'll play a key role in driving schedule adherence, improving performance, and building strong relationships with customers, suppliers, and internal stakeholders.

This is an exciting opportunity to influence major engineering and defence projects while developing your leadership capabilities within a world-class organisation committed to innovation, collaboration, and career growth.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Manage workload delivery to meet contract requirements while achieving cost, schedule, and quality targets.
• Establish and promote safe working practices in line with company policies and standards.
• Set, monitor, and report compartment completion targets to ensure successful project delivery.
• Take ownership of the compartment completion process to enable workfaces to achieve programme milestones.
• Liaise with planning, materials, warehousing, quality, and support teams to drive a coordinated delivery approach.

This role is full time, 36 hours per week and is based at Rosyth. Hybrid working patterns are available.

Essential experience:

• Extensive recent experience within a marine, shipbuilding, or maritime engineering environment.
• Experience working within planning, project delivery, or production management functions.
• Ability to apply practical, common-sense problem-solving skills in a complex operational environment.
• Strong interpersonal skills with experience building effective customer and stakeholder relationships.
• Experience working within fast-paced, time-critical production or manufacturing environments.

Qualifications:

• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office applications, including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Degree qualification in Engineering, Project Management, Marine Studies, or a related discipline.

Security Clearance:

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is 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.

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 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.

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