Job Title: Generator and Diesel Engine Specialist
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation: £41,000 to £45,000 dependent on experience
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF65793
Create a Safer World with Babcock
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Generator and Diesel Engine Specialist at our Clyde, Coulport site, near Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute.
The role
As a Generator and Diesel Engine Specialist, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be at the heart of maintaining and improving critical infrastructure that supports national defence — work that truly matters. This is your chance to make a tangible impact while developing your career in a dynamic, forward-thinking environment.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
- Providing expert support for engine-related systems in Building 220
- Diagnosing and resolving mechanical and POL (Petrol, Oils & Lubricants) issues
- Supporting maintenance teams and projects with your specialist knowledge
- Ensuring safety, quality, and environmental standards are upheld
- Acting as an Authorised Person for Mechanical Pressure Systems and POL
This role is full-time, 36 hours worked over 4 days, and is based on site at RNAD Coulport, near Helensburgh.
Essential experience of the Generator and Diesel Engine Specialist:
- Proven experience working on Diesel, Oil, or Petrol engines
- Hands-on experience with Generators
Qualifications for the Generator and Diesel Engine Specialist:
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education. If you can demonstrate the required experience and a willingness to learn, we’d love to hear from you.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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.
Closing date: 26/01/2026
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