Job Title: Mechanical and Welder Supervisor
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation: £42,850 to £50,118 Dependent on experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF59171
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 Mechanical and Welder Supervisor at our Clyde, Faslane site.
The role
As a Mechanical and Welder Supervisor you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll lead a team of Industrial Trades responsible for carrying out planned and reactive maintenance, testing and commissioning activities on Fleet Assets. Ensuring completion of all planned project activities to ensure the department meets the objectives of the business to time, cost, safety, and quality standards.
Day-to-day, you'll lead and manage a multi skilled trades team of Welders, Mechanical fitters, and Coppersmiths for the delivery of Fleet Engineering work packages. Using technical capability to collaborate with project stakeholders to plan and schedule packages of work. You will also:
* Work with the Nuclear Repair Enablement and Fleet Programme Teams to define and detail the work required to deliver each activity. Defining each manageable task and schedule of activities to remove conflicts.
* Ensure all safety, quality and technical documentation is reviewed and available at the commencement of all tasking.
* Engagement and management of subcontractors to complete areas of the work package in accordance with site processes.
* Implementation and promotion of the Company's Safety, Quality and Environmental policies during projects, ensuring that assessments of risks are carried out which lead to safe working attitudes and practices.
* Work with the Delivery Manager Ashore and departmental Training Staff to manage development and performance of the Delivery Team.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at HM Naval Base Clyde (Faslane) with occasional travel to our Coulport site.
Essential experience of the Mechanical and Welder Supervisor
* Previous experience working within Nuclear Engineering with Engineering Supervisory experience
* Awareness and application of Safe Systems of Work
* Safety, Health, Environment, Quality awareness
* Experience in collaborating with multiple stakeholders simultaneously in a dynamic engineering environment
* Must be able to work safely and perform tasks at varying heights
Qualifications for the Mechanical and Welder Supervisor
* HNC in a relevant engineering discipline or equivalent trade experience and knowledge
* ILM Level 3 is desirable but not essential
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
* 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
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 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: 04/12/2024
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