Job Title: Engineering Support Operative
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation: £29,658 - £33.686
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74193
Help keep critical naval operations moving safely and efficiently.
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 Operative at HM Naval Base Clyde, near Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute.
As an Engineering Support Operative, you'll play an important role in supporting frontline waterfront operations at one of the UK's most strategically significant defence sites. Working within a fast-paced engineering and operational environment, you'll provide multi-skilled support across a variety of activities that help ensure vessels, equipment, and waterfront facilities remain operational, safe, and mission ready.
This is an exciting opportunity to build your career within defence engineering, working alongside experienced teams that make a real contribution to national security. You'll develop valuable skills, gain exposure to a broad range of operational activities, and become part of a team that delivers essential support to the Royal Navy's submarine and maritime operations.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Supporting waterfront operations to ensure tasks are completed safely, efficiently and to schedule.
- Following established procedures and safe systems of work while maintaining the highest operational standards.
- Contributing to continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance processes and productivity.
- Working in accordance with health, safety and environmental requirements across the site.
- Performing a variety of operational and engineering support activities within your skills, training and capability
This role is full time, 36 hours per week, based on site at HM Naval Base Clyde. Set working times are Monday to Thursday, 36 hours per week.
Essential experience of the Engineering Support Operative:
- Experience of waterfront, marine, maritime, engineering, industrial or operational support activities.
- Knowledge of standard operating procedures and safe working practices.
- Understanding of health, safety and environmental requirements within an operational environment.
- Experience of quality assurance processes and working to established standards.
- Knowledge of manual handling activities and risk assessment principles.
Qualifications for the Engineering Support Operative:
- Slinging Signaller qualification.
- Diesel Counterbalance up to 5000kg Familiarisation (Category B1).
- Emergency Exposure REPPIR Training.
- Emergency First Aid certification.
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: 01/09/2026
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