Job Title: Mechanical Fitter
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation: £40,124 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF67490
Help Keep the Royal Navy Operational
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Mechanical Fitter at Faslane, near Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute.
As a Mechanical Fitter, you’ll take on a role that’s essential to supporting the Royal Navy’s fleet readiness. You’ll work at the heart of our Waterfront operations, carrying out mechanical fitting activities that keep complex engineering systems running safely, efficiently and reliably. This is a hands‑on engineering role where your work directly contributes to national security, protects communities and offers a career packed with challenge, purpose and progression.
You’ll join a highly skilled team committed to engineering excellence, continuous improvement and professional development. It’s a role where you can grow your expertise while making a meaningful impact every day.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
- Completing planned preventative maintenance to support operational targets
- Carrying out defect and repair activities on Waterfront mechanical systems and equipment
- Working within Health & Safety legislation, Safe Systems of Work and BM&T Clyde procedures
- Operating Waterfront systems and equipment in line with relevant procedures
- Suggesting improvements to systems and processes to drive safety and productivity.
This is a full‑time role, 36 hours per week, Monday to Thursday, giving you a three‑day weekend, based on site at Faslane.
Essential experience of the Mechanical Fitter:
- Proven mechanical fitting experience
- Knowledge and experience of mechanical systems and equipment
- Ability to interpret engineering drawings
- Marine engineering background advantageous but not essential
- Comfortable performing manual work, including lifting, bending and using tools.
Qualifications for the Mechanical Fitter:
Essential:
- NVQ/SVQ Level 3 in a mechanical discipline or equivalent
Preferred:
- Additional mechanical or engineering‑related training or certifications.
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: 16/02/2026
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