Production Capability Lead - Electrical in Rosyth

Create a Future That Lasts

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 - Electrical at our Rosyth site.

The role

As a Production Capability Lead - Electrical, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a central role in shaping the capability of our electrical production workforce across our marine engineering operations. This is a career-defining opportunity to lead the development, deployment and performance of electrical tradespeople working on some of the UK’s most important defence and engineering programmes.

Day‑to‑day, you’ll be:

• Leading and developing electrical trade capability across the site, ensuring our workforce remains competent, skilled and future‑ready.
• Managing supply, demand and resource planning, ensuring the right Suitably Qualified and Experienced Persons (SQEP) are deployed to priority programmes.
• Coordinating trade requirements with programme teams, ensuring skills align with operational needs.
• Supporting early careers pathways — apprentices, trainees and Production Support Operatives (PSOs) — ensuring training, mentoring and progression align to future business requirements.
• Enhancing safety, quality and efficiency by supporting investigations, analysing trends and contributing to improvements in tools, processes and PPE.

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

Essential experience

• Time‑served in an electrical trade with extensive experience within an engineering operations environment.
• Strong understanding of engineering processes, compliance standards and safe working practices.
• Proven leadership capability with experience influencing and engaging across teams and senior stakeholders.
• Highly organised, able to manage competing priorities and multiple fast‑moving projects.
• Confident in using Microsoft Office applications.

Qualifications

• Time‑served electrical trade qualification or equivalent.
• Additional leadership, training or workforce development‑related qualifications - 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. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - 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.

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 09/02/2026