Job Title: Engineering Support Multi Skilled Operative
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation: £29,658 - £33,686
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74738
Help Keep Critical Naval Infrastructure Mission Ready
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Engineering Support Multi Skilled Operative at HMNB Clyde, near Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly skilled engineering environment supporting some of the United Kingdom’s most important defence assets. Working at the heart of Fleet Engineering, you'll contribute to the maintenance, availability and performance of submarines, surface vessels and essential estate infrastructure that support national security.
As an Engineering Support Multi Skilled Operative, you'll provide vital multi-skilled support to Fleet Engineering teams, helping to deliver planned maintenance activities and supporting the identification and resolution of engineering defects. Your work will directly contribute to operational readiness and asset availability while giving you the opportunity to develop valuable skills within a world-class engineering and defence organisation.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Supporting engineering teams to deliver planned preventative maintenance activities safely and efficiently.
- Assisting with the identification and rectification of system, manufacturing and equipment defects across fleet and estate assets.
- Operating and handling engineering support equipment in accordance with approved procedures and safe systems of work.
- Maintaining compliance with health, safety and environmental requirements, including control of work processes.
- Identifying opportunities to improve processes and supporting continuous improvement initiatives across the department..
This is a full-time, permanent role based on-site at HMNB Clyde working 36 hours per week, Monday to Thursday.
Essential experience of the Engineering Support Multi Skilled Operative:
- Experience supporting engineering, maintenance or operational activities within an industrial, marine, engineering or defence environment.
- Experience working with engineering support equipment such as scaffolding, forklift truck operations or slinging activities.
- Knowledge of manual handling practices and safe working procedures.
- Experience following risk assessments, COSHH requirements and safe systems of work.
- Experience controlling, issuing and returning work equipment in a regulated environment.
Qualifications for the Engineering Support Multi Skilled Operative:
- Confined Spaces for Competent Persons certification.
- Occasional Climber/Working at Heights certification.
- Pristine Manual Handling certification.
- Radiation Worker Training certification.
- Full UK Driving Licence (Category B).
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is 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. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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.
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: 27/07/2026
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