Lead Welding Engineer
Location: Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, GB, KY11 2YD
Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite
Job Title: Lead Welding Engineer
Location: Rosyth, Fife
Compensation: Highly Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF59026
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 Lead Welding Engineer at our Rosyth, Fife site.
The role
As a Lead Welding Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will propose, provide, manage, and deliver Welding Engineering solutions and support to ongoing and new projects within our Marine Engineering & Systems, Rosyth.
Day-to-day, you’ll provide practical support on the shop floor with ongoing work scopes and help ensure uninterrupted production. You will be the subject matter expert for Project deliverables and ensure welding engineering key performance indicators are being met.
* Use your knowledge and expertise to assess and understand technical problems and generate solutions using experimental trials and process development.
* Plan, organise and launch Welding Engineering Projects ensuring that time, cost, quality, and safety targets are set and delivered on time.
* Qualify welding procedures, producing detailed records of all welding parameters including welding procedure qualification (WPQ), welding procedure specification (WPS) and welder qualification documentation (WQ) to ensure successful results.
* Mentor colleagues within the Welding Engineering Team fostering innovative thinking and ensuring they are empowered to deliver.
* Ensure that safe working practices and the working environment is in accordance with the Company Policy
This role is full time, 36 hours per week, Monday to Friday and is based at our Rosyth Dockyard, Fife site.
Essential experience of the Lead Welding Engineer
* Working knowledge of the main welding processes typically used for structural and piping applications within heavy engineering environments.
* Be familiar with national and international codes and specifications required within a heavy engineering environment.
* Have or be able to achieve Responsible Welding Co-Ordinator (RWC) accreditation.
* Demonstrable experience within a heavy engineering environment such as ship building, ship repair, Oil and Gas or Nuclear industries.
* Robotic, automatic and mechanised welding process familiarity beneficial.
* You will hold health and safety to the highest regard and focused on ensuring delivery on cost and quality targets.
Qualifications for the Lead Welding Engineer
* Degree or equivalent in Welding Engineering or relevant/associated discipline
* IIW/IWF European Welding Technologist (EWT) minimum, ideally European Welding Engineer (EWE)
* You will be a registered as Incorporated Engineer (IEng) minimum, ideally Chartered Engineer (CEng) with the UK Engineering Council.
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience then we would like to hear from you.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Security Check 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 (www.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 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 the majority of 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
* Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met.
* A dynamic working environment.
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
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: 31/10/2024
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