Job Title: Weld Training Officer
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Train the Next Generation of Skilled Welders
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 Weld Training Officer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Weld Training Officer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced welder looking to step off the tools and move into a rewarding role that shapes careers and strengthens national security.
Day-to-day, you’ll be at the heart of developing the next generation of welders who support critical defence projects. You’ll oversee training and qualification for structural and pipe welders, ensuring compliance with ISO, ASME, and DefStan standards.
1. Oversee the full welder training and qualification process
2. Conduct visual weld inspections and coordinate NDE and destructive testing
3. Develop and deliver training programmes for all skill levels
4. Ensure documentation is completed for audit readiness
5. Support continuous improvement in welding standards and practices
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential experience of the Weld Training Officer
6. Strong welding background with knowledge of MMA, FCAW, MIG/MAG, and TIG processes
7. Experience in a highly regulated environment, ideally marine or defence
8. Excellent communication skills and computer literacy
9. Attention to detail when presenting technical information
10. Understanding of quality control and documentation requirements
Qualifications for the Weld Training Officer
11. Level 3 Technical Certificate (City & Guilds or BTEC) in Welding or equivalent
12. Willingness to undertake further training, including CSWIP Weld Instructor certification
13. CSWIP 3.0 Visual Weld Inspection - Desirable
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) 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
14. Generous holiday allowance
15. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
16. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
17. Employee share scheme
18. Employee shopping savings portal
19. Payment of Professional Fees
20. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
21. 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.
22. ‘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
23. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
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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