Job Title: Mechanical Engineering Capability Lead
Location: Rosyth, Fife
Compensation: £56,570 - £66,229 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF70220
Shape the future of critical defence engineering
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 Engineering Capability Lead at our Rosyth site.
The role
As a Mechanical Engineering Capability Lead, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll take ownership of how our pipe and mechanical workforce is developed, deployed and future‑proofed at Rosyth. This is a highly influential role where your expertise will directly shape workforce capability, operational performance and long-term skills sustainability.
Day-to-day you’ll be required to:
- Leading the deployment and utilisation of pipe and mechanical resources across programmes to meet current and future demand
- Acting as the site Subject Matter Expert for mechanical and pipe trades, maintaining capability, standards and compliance
- Developing and owning the trade competency framework in collaboration with learning, safety and engineering teams
- Supporting early careers planning by identifying future apprentice and trainee requirements aligned to business strategy
- Partnering with senior stakeholders to drive workforce planning, performance and continuous improvement
This role is full time, 36 hours per week and is based on site at Rosyth.
Essential experience of the Mechanical Engineering Capability Lead
- Proven experience leading and managing teams within an engineering or industrial environment
- Strong technical knowledge of mechanical or pipe trades and their interaction with engineering, quality and safety functions
- Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in senior leadership environments, influencing and communicating with confidence
- Excellent people management, problem-solving and conflict resolution skills
- Highly developed organisation and prioritisation capabilities in complex operational settings
Qualifications for the Mechanical Engineering Capability Lead
- Time served in a relevant mechanical or pipe trade, with extensive experience in an engineering or production environment
- Leadership, management or assessor qualifications would be an advantage
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 (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 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
Babcock
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: 19/05/2026
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