Job Title: Weapons Engineer
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation: £48, - £50, Dependent on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Deliver world-class training for the Royal Navy’s Astute Class submarines.
Ready to take your career in a new direction? At Babcock, we value the deep expertise that comes from hands-on experience and we offer a unique opportunity to channel that knowledge into a rewarding new path. As a Weapons Instructor at our site in Faslane Clyde, near Helensburgh you’ll step away from the tools and into a role where you’ll shape the next generation of Weapons Engineers in the Royal Navy. If you're ready to make a meaningful impact while growing your own career, this could be the perfect next step.
The role
As a Weapons Engineer, you’ll take on a specialist instructional role delivering Weapons Electrical training for Astute Class submarines. This is a unique opportunity to combine teaching expertise with technical knowledge, ensuring future submarine crews are trained to the highest standards. You’ll also support course design and integrate technical changes into training materials, making a direct impact on the Royal Navy’s operational capability.
Day-to-day you’ll be required to:
1. Deliver Weapons Electrical and submarine systems training to student groups
2. Support courseware updates and integrate technical changes into training materials
3. Provide subject matter expertise for training design and business development activities
4. Conduct administration, reporting, and compliance tasks to meet contractual standards
5. Uphold health, safety, and environmental procedures while occasionally supporting training at secondary UK sites
This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and is based on site at Faslane.
Essential experience of the Weapons Engineer:
6. Ex-Royal Navy (RN) WE Watch Keeper
7. Sound knowledge and application of submarine Tactical Weapons Engineering System
8. Comprehensive knowledge of Sonar, Integrated Communications System, Command Systems or Weapons Engineering
9. Detailed knowledge and understanding of WE equipment
10. High levels of IT proficiency and strong organisational skills
Qualifications for the Weapons Engineer:
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you. However, an engineering qualification is desirable.
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 .
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.