Job Title: Mechanical Trade Supervisor
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation: £45,627 - £53,345 Dependent on experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF68780
Lead critical engineering work that powers national security
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 Trade Supervisor at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.
The role
As a Mechanical Trade Supervisor, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll take on a pivotal leadership role within our Fleet Engineering team, delivering complex mechanical work packages that directly support the operational readiness of the Royal Navy. This is a unique opportunity to lead skilled teams through technically challenging projects, ensuring the safe and efficient delivery of engineering activities in a highly regulated environment.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Leading and supervising multi-skilled teams to safely deliver mechanical engineering work packages
- Producing and reviewing technical documentation such as work scopes and method statements
- Planning, scheduling, and coordinating tasks to ensure delivery against safety, cost, quality, and time targets
- Managing subcontractors and collaborating with internal stakeholders to support project delivery
- Promoting a strong safety, quality, and continuous improvement culture across all activities
This role is full time, 36 hours per week Monday to Thursday 07:15 – 16:45 and is based on site at HMNB Clyde Faslane.
Essential experience of the Mechanical Trade Supervisor
- Demonstrable experience in mechanical engineering within an industrial or engineering environment
- Proven experience in a supervisory or team leadership role
- Experience planning and coordinating engineering work packages
- Strong understanding of safety, quality, and operational performance standards
- Ability to work collaboratively with multiple stakeholders in a complex environment
Qualifications for the Mechanical Trade Supervisor
- HNC or HND in a mechanical engineering discipline or equivalent
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: 28/10/2026
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