Job Title: Electrical Test Engineer
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation: £40,000 - £52,000 + Overtime + Benefits + 35% Shift Allowance
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF68038
Engineering Excellence Beneath the Surface
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Electrical Test Engineer at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.
The role
As an Electrical Test Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. you’ll be part of a specialist commissioning team responsible for testing and calibrating electrical systems on Royal Navy submarines. This is a hands-on engineering role where your work directly contributes to national security, ensuring our vessels are safe, reliable, and mission-ready.
Day-to-day you’ll be:
- Conducting commissioning, testing and calibration activities on submarine electrical systems
- Supporting the Senior Test Engineer to optimise team performance
- Applying nuclear safety protocols and ensuring compliance with Clyde Safety Management Arrangements
- Producing technical documentation and test reports
- Diagnosing electrical faults and maintaining high safety and quality standards
This role is full time, 36 hours per week and is based on site at HMNB Clyde, Faslane. Shift patterns apply and may vary depending on operational requirements. A shift allowance of 35% is included for roles working these patterns.
Essential experience of the Electrical Test Engineer
- Strong electrical diagnostic and fault-finding skills
- Effective interpersonal and relationship-building abilities
- Understanding of commissioning processes (desirable but not essential)
Qualifications for the Electrical Test Engineer
- Recognised Electrical Engineering Apprenticeship or HNC
- However, those with proven experience in a relevant engineering discipline will also be considered.
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 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.
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.
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