Job Title: Engineering Support Multi Skilled Operative
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation: £29, + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Keep the Fleet moving. Support engineering that protects what matters most.
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Engineering Support Multi Skilled Operative at HMNB Clyde, near Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute.
Babcock is a trusted provider of critical engineering services across defence, aerospace and engineering. Our work supports the UK’s naval fleet and essential national infrastructure, making this a career that is both technically rewarding and genuinely meaningful.
The role
As an Engineering Support Multi Skilled Operative, you’ll play a vital part in enabling our Fleet Engineering teams to operate safely, efficiently and effectively. This is a hands‑on, varied role supporting planned maintenance, defect rectification and engineering activities across submarines, surface vessels and the wider estate.
You’ll be joining a highly skilled operational environment where no two days are the same. It’s a role that builds technical breadth, develops strong safety and compliance awareness, and offers long‑term career progression within defence engineering.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
1. Supporting engineering teams to deliver planned preventative maintenance activities.
2. Enabling the identification and rectification of system, manufacturing and in-service defects.
3. Maintaining the control, issue and return of tools, equipment and materials.
4. Working safely within all Health and Safety legislation, Safe Systems of Work and control of work processes.
5. Contributing to continuous improvement by suggesting better ways of working to enhance productivity.
This is a full-time role working 36 hours per week, based on site at HMNB Clyde. Set working times are Monday to Thursday.
Essential experience of the Engineering Support Multi Skilled Operative
6. Experience supporting fleet engineering activities and equipment such as scaffolding, forklift truck operations or slinging.
7. Competence in manual handling within an industrial or operational environment.
8. Experience using Risk Assessments, COSHH and Safe Systems of Work.
9. Experience controlling, issuing and returning work equipment.
Qualifications for the Engineering Support Multi Skilled Operative:
10. Full UK Driving Licence (Category B).
Additional operational training such as forklift or slinging can be provided where required.
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 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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