Job Title: Scaffolder
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation: £30, - £40,
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Build the structures that keep the Fleet moving.
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Scaffolder at Faslane, near Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute.
The role
As a Scaffolder, you’ll play an important part in supporting essential engineering and maintenance activities that keep the Royal Navy’s Fleet and wider site infrastructure operational. Your work will help ensure preventative maintenance, vital inspections and critical repair activities can be carried out safely and efficiently—directly contributing to national defence, energy security and the future of engineering within the UK.
This is an opportunity to develop your technical skillset in a unique environment while building a career that has purpose, impact and long‑term progression. You’ll join a team that values expertise, teamwork and continual improvement.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
1. Carry out scaffolding duties including tube and fitting, cup lock systems and maintenance of existing structures.
2. Support engineering teams to safely complete planned preventative maintenance activities.
3. Help identify and resolve defects, alterations and repairs to ensure the availability of submarines, vessels and estate infrastructure.
4. Lead or participate in scaffold operations for which you are trained and assessed.
5. Assist with wider tasks across the team when required.
You’ll work 36 hours per week, based on site at Faslane.
Essential experience of the Scaffolder:
6. Experience providing scaffolding services to support engineering and maintenance activities.
7. Ability to support identification and rectification of defects to maintain operational availability.
8. Experience following established processes and contributing ideas for improvements.
9. Ability to lead or participate in scaffold operations across tube and fitting and recognised system scaffold products.
Qualifications for the Scaffolder:
10. Advanced Scaffolder – Blue Card
11. Cup lock scaffolding experience
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is 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 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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