Electrical trade supervisor

Job Title: Electrical Trade Supervisor

Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute

Compensation: £45,627 - £53,345 Dependant on experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF72434

Lead critical engineering work that keeps the nation safe

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Electrical Trade Supervisor at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.

The role

As an Electrical Trade Supervisor, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll lead and manage multi-disciplinary teams delivering complex fleet engineering work packages across nuclear and marine environments. This is a dynamic and varied role where you’ll oversee projects ranging from tens of thousands of hours to several weeks in duration, ensuring they are delivered safely, efficiently, and to the highest quality standards.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Leading and supervising multi-skilled teams and subcontractors to deliver engineering work packages
• Planning, scheduling, and coordinating electrical and multi-trade activities to meet cost, time, and quality targets
• Ensuring all documentation, risk assessments, and method statements are in place and followed
• Driving a strong safety, quality, and continuous improvement culture across all activities
• Building effective relationships with stakeholders including programme teams, ship staff, and support functions

This role is full time, 36 hours per week, Monday to Thursday 07:15 to 16:45 and is based on site at HMNB Clyde Faslane.

Essential experience of the Electrical Trade Supervisor

• Demonstrating strong electrical engineering experience within a complex environment
• Supervising teams or acting in a first‑line leadership capacity
• Managing or coordinating engineering work packages or projects
• Applying a safety‑first mindset in highly regulated or safety‑critical industries
• Communicating effectively with stakeholders across multiple disciplines

Qualifications for the Electrical Trade Supervisor

• HNC or HND in an Electrical Engineering discipline or equivalent 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 United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - 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 shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Holiday Trading 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

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference. 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: 29/06/2026