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Production Capability Lead - Electrical
full-timeLimekilns$56k - $66k

Summary

Location

Limekilns

Salary

$56k - $66k (GBP)

Type

full-time

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About this role

Job Title:                      Production Capability Lead - Electrical

Location:                      Rosyth, Fife + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation:            £56,569 - £66,229 + Benefits

Role Type:                    Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                         SF70219

 

Create a Future That Lasts

 

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 Production Capability Lead - Electrical at our Rosyth site.

 

The role

As a Production Capability Lead - Electrical, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a central role in shaping the capability of our electrical production workforce across our marine engineering operations. This is a career-defining opportunity to lead the development, deployment and performance of electrical tradespeople working on some of the UK’s most important defence and engineering programmes.

 

Day‑to‑day, you’ll be:

 

  • Leading and developing electrical trade capability across the site, ensuring our workforce remains competent, skilled and future‑ready.
  • Managing supply, demand and resource planning, ensuring the right Suitably Qualified and Experienced Persons (SQEP) are deployed to priority programmes.
  • Coordinating trade requirements with programme teams, ensuring skills align with operational needs.
  • Supporting early careers pathways — apprentices, trainees and Production Support Operatives (PSOs) — ensuring training, mentoring and progression align to future business requirements.
  • Enhancing safety, quality and efficiency by supporting investigations, analysing trends and contributing to improvements in tools, processes and PPE.

 

This role is full time, 36 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements – one day working from home.

 

Essential experience of the Production Capability Lead - Electrical

  • Time‑served in an electrical trade with extensive experience within an engineering operations environment.
  • Strong understanding of engineering processes, compliance standards and safe working practices.
  • Proven leadership capability with experience influencing and engaging across teams and senior stakeholders.
  • Highly organised, able to manage competing priorities and multiple fast‑moving projects.
  • Confident in using Microsoft Office applications.

 

Qualifications for the Production Capability Lead - Electrical

  • Time‑served electrical trade qualification or equivalent.
  • Additional leadership, training or workforce development‑related qualifications - Desirable

 

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 [email protected] 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: 09/02/2026

 

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Other facts

Tech stack
Electrical Trade,Engineering Operations,Leadership,Resource Planning,Safety Compliance,Microsoft Office,Training,Mentoring,Project Management,Analytical Skills

About Babcock

Babcock is a FTSE 100 defence company operating in our focus countries of the UK, Australasia, Canada, France and South Africa, with exports to additional markets.

Our Purpose, to create a safe and secure world, together, defines our strategy. We support and enhance our customers’ defence and security capabilities and critical assets through a range of product and service solutions. We meet our customers’ requirements of value for money, increased availability, modernisation and flexibility.

These projects take all different kinds of professionals, from chartered engineers and project managers, to naval architects, data analysts and everything in between. To bring through the next generation of engineering and business experts, we offer apprenticeships and roles for students, graduates and fully-qualified professionals.

There’s never been a better time to join us. Whether you’re looking for a new business management project or engineering role, join Babcock and grow with us.

Babcock is a Disability Confident, Committed Employer

Team size: 10,001+ employees
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Industry: Defense and Space Manufacturing

What you'll do

  • The Production Capability Lead - Electrical will lead the development and performance of the electrical production workforce. This includes managing resource planning and ensuring alignment of skills with operational needs.

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What does Babcock pay for a Production Capability Lead - Electrical?

Babcock offers a competitive compensation package for the Production Capability Lead - Electrical role. The salary range is GBP 57k - 66k per year. Apply through Clera to learn more about the full compensation details.

What does a Production Capability Lead - Electrical do at Babcock?

As a Production Capability Lead - Electrical at Babcock, you will: the Production Capability Lead - Electrical will lead the development and performance of the electrical production workforce. This includes managing resource planning and ensuring alignment of skills with operational needs..

Why join Babcock as a Production Capability Lead - Electrical?

Babcock is a leading Defense and Space Manufacturing company. The Production Capability Lead - Electrical role offers competitive compensation.

Is the Production Capability Lead - Electrical position at Babcock remote?

The Production Capability Lead - Electrical position at Babcock is based in Limekilns, Scotland, United Kingdom. Contact the company through Clera for specific work arrangement details.

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