Welding Development Supervisor

Job Title: Welding Development Supervisor
Location: Rosyth, Fife
Compensation: £42,578.00 - £44,877.00 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF57251

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 Welding Development Supervisor at our Rosyth site.

The role
As a Welding Development Supervisor, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. This role is based within the Weld Centre full time, you will get the opportunity to pass on your knowledge to new individuals, trainee Welders straight from school.

Day-to-day, you'll ensure the performance and knowledge evidence presented by Apprentices and Trainees is valid, reliable, and authentic, that it is directly attributable to the individual and that it meets the knowledge and understanding requirements of the qualifications being undertaken. You will also:

• Establish and ensure that safe working practices and the working environment is in accordance with the Company policy.
• Efficiently manage personnel, ensuring that start/stop times, attendance standards, behaviour standards are always maintained.
• Set training/testing targets to employees daily ensuring achievement.
• Take ownership of activity levels within the area
• Undertake any other duties, which may be requested by the Welding Development Manager/Head of Technical Services, for which training and / or an explanation has been provided and understood.
• This role is full time, Monday to Thursday and is based on site at Rosyth.

Essential experience of the Welding Development Supervisor

• Candidate will have industrial experience using the TIG process in the pipework sector to volumetric examination standard
• Candidate will have previous 3rd party endorsed welder coding and highly proficient in solid wire MIG SMAW, FCAW, MCAW and have an understanding of SAW and mechanised processes.
• Be IT literate (Word, Excel etc)
• Candidate will have a current or historical evidence of a 3rd party endorsed welder qualification certificate in the TIG process

Qualifications for the Welding Development Supervisor

• Minimum SVQ level 3 qualification in Welding and Fabrication or equivalent
• Candidates will have passed or will require undertake and pass the Babcock leadership development assessment course.
• Candidate will have completed a recognised welding apprenticeship and have significant experience as a qualified tradesman with relevant industrial experience

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / 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.

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• 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: 23/05/2024