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Senior welding engineer

Bristol (City of Bristol)
Babcock International
Welding engineer
Posted: 2 July
Offer description

Job Title: Senior Welding Engineer
Location : Ashton Vale, Bristol
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF


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 Senior Welding Engineer at our Ashton Vale site.


The role
As a Senior Welding Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. We are a manufacturing facility specializing in high-complexity, low-volume production. As we anticipate unprecedented growth in the coming years, we are seeking a skilled Senior Welding Engineer to join our dynamic team. This role is crucial in ensuring the management of our production and supply chain welding activities to meet current and future demands.


Day-to-day, you’ll join a diverse and energetic team of production, project, engineering, and other functional staff working together to deliver exciting cutting edge defence projects to UK and international clients.

1. Act as the business point of contact for NDT and work closely with contracted SME in all related activities.
2. Provide awareness and knowledge sharing activities to manufacturing and design Engineers. to ensure understanding of requirements and activities.
3. Lead in the review, assessment and development of new welding processes and technologies and their introduction into manufacture.
4. Responsible for the delivery of welding development projects to budget and schedule.
5. Manage the coordination and delivery of welding engineering tasks and activities.
6. Continued development of the welding engineering team capability and competencies.


This role is full time 37 hours per week and is based on site at Ashton Vale, Bristol.


Essential experience of the Senior Welding Engineer

7. Practical knowledge of MIG/MAG FCAW, SAW and TIG welding processes.
8. Good knowledge and understanding of the weldability of C-Mn, Q&T, stainless steels, and Ni based alloys.
9. Good awareness and knowledge of NDT processes and applications (VT, MT, UT, RT).
10. Computing skills (Microsoft Office, WeldEye, IFS).


Qualifications for the Senior Welding Engineer

11. Hold IWT/EWT status or able to demonstrate working within governance in a similar role.

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

What We Offer

12. Generous holiday allowance
13. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
14. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
15. Employee share scheme
16. Employee shopping savings portal
17. Payment of Professional Fees
18. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
19. Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit
20. ‘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
21. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing

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