Job Title: Multi Coded Welder
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation: £38, + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Weld your future into something extraordinary
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Multi Coded Welder at Clyde, near Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute.
The role
As a Multi Coded Welder, you’ll be part of a highly skilled team supporting the Royal Navy’s fleet. You’ll carry out critical welding tasks on submarines and surface vessels, ensuring structural integrity and operational readiness. This is a hands-on role where your precision and expertise will directly contribute to national defence and maritime safety.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
1. Delivering high-quality welds using MMA, Flux Core, and TIG techniques on pipework and structural components
2. Identifying and rectifying defects in systems and manufacturing processes
3. Enhancing welding processes and techniques to improve efficiency and quality
4. Complying with Health & Safety regulations and Safe Systems of Work
5. Collaborating with a multi-skilled team to support routine and emergent welding activities.
This is a full-time role, working 36 hours per week, based on site at Clyde.
Essential experience of the Multi Coded Welder:
6. Extensive experience as a multi-coded welder, proficient in MMA, Flux Core, and TIG
7. Strong background in pipework and structural coding
8. Familiarity with welds subject to non-destructive and destructive testing
9. Experience working in a highly regulated environment.
Qualifications for the Multi Coded Welder:
10. A recognised fabrication/welding Apprenticeship to at least N/SVQ Level 3.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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
11. Generous holiday allowance
12. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
13. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
14. Employee share scheme
15. Employee shopping savings portal
16. Payment of Professional Fees
17. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
18. 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.
19. ‘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
20. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.