Job Title: Compliance Engineer
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation: £34, - £45, + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Be the reason our fleet, assets and infrastructure stay safe, compliant and ready for mission‑critical operations
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 Compliance Engineer at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.
The role
As a Compliance Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. you’ll play a vital role in maintaining the safety and assurance of high‑hazard operations across HMNB Clyde. This is an opportunity to apply your engineering knowledge in a dynamic defence environment - supporting activities that directly contribute to national security, engineering excellence and a safer world.
Day‑to‑day you’ll be:
1. Supporting compliance monitoring across high‑risk engineering activities, including design, installation, maintenance, testing and inspection.
2. Providing clear advice and guidance to operational departments, contractors and project teams.
3. Developing technical competence to become a topic specialist in key engineering areas.
4. Contributing to compliance checks, incident investigations and planned audit activity.
5. Building knowledge of industry best practice for asset care, working at height, confined spaces, lifting operations, pressure systems, electrical testing and more.
This role is full time, 36 hours per week, Monday–Thursday, 07:15–16:45 and is based on site at HMNB Clyde Faslane.
Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible, blended working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Essential experience of the Compliance Engineer
6. Experience working within a highly regulated, high‑hazard industrial environment.
7. Operational experience within at least one relevant discipline (e.g., lifting operations, pressure systems, electrical testing, working at height, confined spaces).
8. Understanding of engineering compliance, safety management and regulatory frameworks.
9. Ability to interpret technical information and provide clear, practical guidance.
10. Comfortable engaging with diverse stakeholders across engineering and operations.
Qualifications for the Compliance Engineer
11. HNC or equivalent qualification in a relevant engineering discipline (Electrical, Mechanical, Building Services or Fire Management Disciplines).
12. IOSH Managing Safely or IOSH Risk Management qualification.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be 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 .
What we offer
13. Generous holiday allowance
14. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
15. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
16. Employee shopping savings portal
17. Payment of Professional Fees
18. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
19. 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.
20. ‘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
Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26, 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.
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