Production Capability Lead - Support in Dunfermline

Location: Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, GB, KY11 2YD

Onsite or Hybrid: Hybrid

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF70223

Drive Capability. Shape Future Skills. Lead with Purpose. 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 Capability Lead at our Rosyth site.

The role

As a Production Capability Lead, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a critical part in shaping the industrial capability that underpins major defence, aerospace and engineering programmes. This is an exciting opportunity to directly influence the future of our production workforce - ensuring we have the right people, with the right skills, at the right time to deliver projects that are vital to national security.

Day‑to‑day you’ll be required to:

• Lead capability planning by overseeing the deployment, development and progression of the industrial workforce.
• Coordinate workforce supply and demand using Integrated Business Plan insights and programme requirements.
• Manage the competency framework, ensuring all workers remain Suitably Qualified and Experienced.
• Engage with trade forums, mentors and training providers to drive continuous improvement.
• Support early careers pathways — apprentices, trainees and Production Support Operatives (PSOs) — ensuring training, mentoring and progression align to future business requirements.
• Oversee skills gap analysis and shape upskilling and training strategies across the site.

This role is full time, 36 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements – 1 day working from home.

Essential experience:

• Extensive Knowledge of operations in an engineering environment.
• Strong understanding of engineering processes, standards and compliance requirements.
• Demonstrated leadership skills with experience managing teams or leading capability initiatives.
• Strong organisational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Confident use of digital tools, including Microsoft applications.

Qualifications:

• Relevant vocational, technical or professional background that demonstrates deep understanding of engineering workforce requirements.
• Strong knowledge of trade skills and interactions with engineering stakeholders such as engineering, quality etc.

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.

What we offer:

• 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.
• ‘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.

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.