Shipbuild Completions Manager

Job Title:

Shipbuild Completions Manager

Location:

Rosyth, Fife – Hybrid Working Available

Compensation: £56,570 - £66,229

Role Type:
Full time / Permanent

Role

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.

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.

• Managing workload delivery to meet contract requirements while achieving cost, schedule, and quality targets.
• Establishing and promoting safe working practices in line with company policies and standards.
• Setting, monitoring, and reporting compartment completion targets to ensure successful project delivery.
• Taking ownership of the compartment completion process to enable workfaces to achieve programme milestones.
• Liaising 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 rid working patterns are available.

• 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.

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

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. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels -  ().

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva Digi Care+
• 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. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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…