Job Title: Welder
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72411
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Welder at our Ashton Vale, Bristol site.
The Role
As a Welder, you’ll be part of a world-leading team specialising in high-integrity welding for the defence industry. Your work will directly contribute to projects that protect national security and support critical infrastructure. This is an opportunity to develop your skills in a dynamic environment, working on complex assemblies that demand precision and excellence.
As a skilled Welder you will be working in a small but highly effective team where the highest of standards will be expected from both a technical and behavioural perspective.
Day-to-day, your key responsibilities will include:
- Welding of large high strength quenched and tempered Steel assemblies for the defence industry.
- Welding of assemblies used for lifting and handling in the defence industry.
- Welds are subject to full NDT including volumetric Ultrasonic and radiographic examination.
- Welding using manual, mechanised and automatic (Robotic) welding processes
You will be someone for whom collaboration and teamwork comes naturally. You will be a self-starter who wants to make a positive impact on a daily basis.
This role is full time, 36 hours per week and is based on site at Ashton Vale, Bristol.
Essential experience of the Welder
- Time served apprenticeship or similar in welding/fabrication.
- Evidence of previously held codings to recognised European/American standards and working to high quality standards.
- Capable of reading complex fabrication drawings.
- Experience of positional welding using FCAW and solid Wire pulse MAG is essential.
- Experience of welding in the defence industry is desirable.
Qualifications for the Welder
- We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / 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 portalPayment of Professional FeesReservists in the armed forces receive 10‑days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading – buy or sell up to one week of leave‘Be Kind Day’ – one paid volunteering day each year
- Flexible working options where business needs allow
- A dynamic working environment that supports growth, development, and wellbeing
Babcock International
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: 25/03/2026
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