Job Title: Pipefitter
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation: £39, + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Shape the future of defence engineering
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Pipefitter at HMNB Clyde, near Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute.
The role
As a Pipefitter, you’ll be part of a highly skilled team supporting the Royal Navy’s fleet. This is a hands-on role where your expertise will directly contribute to national defence and maritime safety. You’ll carry out essential maintenance and repairs on submarines and surface vessels, helping ensure they’re ready for deployment and operating at peak performance. It’s a career that offers purpose, pride, and the chance to grow your skills in a dynamic and secure environment.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
1. Performing repairs and maintenance on plant system pipework across Royal Navy vessels and base facilities
2. Completing planned preventative maintenance and nuclear-implicated tasks to support operational readiness
3. Identifying and resolving system defects and manufacturing issues to maintain vessel performance
4. Following health and safety legislation and contributing to a safe working environment
5. Suggesting improvements to systems and processes to boost productivity and efficiency.
This is a full-time role, working 36 hours per week, based on site at HMNB Clyde.
Essential experience of the Pipefitter:
6. Skilled in brazing, pipe bending, and interpreting engineering drawings and schematics
7. Familiar with Production Technical Instructions and Support Documentation
8. Knowledge of acceptance standards and regulated industry practices
9. Experience in a highly regulated industry is advantageous but not essential.
Qualifications for the Pipefitter:
10. NVQ Level 3 or equivalent in a relevant engineering discipline.
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.
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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