Shipbuilding Operations Strategy Lead in Dunfermline

As a Shipbuilding Operations Strategy Lead, 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 with some hybrid options available once embedded into the role.

Essential experience

• 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.

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 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.
• ‘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.

We are a disability confident committed employer.