Head of Delivery

1 day ago

Dunfermline, United Kingdom Babcock International Full time

**Head Of Delivery**:

- Location: Rosyth, Dunfermline, Kirkcaldy, GB, KY11 2YD
- Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

**Job Title: Head of Delivery**

**Location: Rosyth, Fife**

**Compensation: Competitive + Benefits**

**Role Type: Full time / Permanent**

**Role ID: SF67158**

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 Head of Delivery at our Rosyth site.

**The role**

As a Head of Delivery, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Lead a high-performing team to deliver one of the UK’s most ambitious shipbuilding programmes. You’ll provide visible leadership, offering clear guidance and direction to ensure successful delivery of agreed targets and milestones.

Day-to-day, you’ll lead and oversee all aspects within the scope of Ship Managers, Commissioning Managers, Quality Control Managers, and Completions Managers. Additionally, you will:

- Deliver the full ship outfitting scope on the Type 31 Programme on time, on budget, safely, and to the highest quality
- Lead composite working teams across all areas of outfit delivery
- Build and inspire an empowered, motivated, and capable team that consistently performs at a high level
- Drive improvements in safety and quality culture, making Type 31 the benchmark for excellence in shipbuilding
- Embed continuous improvement across the delivery stream to ensure all milestone targets are achieved

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and is based on site at Rosyth.

**Essential experience of the Head of Delivery**
- Proven experience in project or programme delivery at a senior management level
- Strong leadership and change management across multidisciplinary environments
- Demonstrated success in shipbuilding programmes with a focus on operations or production management
- Deep understanding of project management processes, tools, and techniques across complex projects
- Ability to influence stakeholders at all levels within a large, complex programme

**Qualifications for the Head of Delivery**
- Relevant degree (or equivalent experience)
- Technical trade or engineering based background
- Membership of a recognised professional institution

**Security Clearance**

**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 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
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

**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.

**Closing date: 09/09/2025**

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