Job Title: Marine Engineer – Engines and Generators
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation: £41, - £45, Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Create a Safer World with Babcock
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 Marine Engineer – Engines and Generators at our RNAD Coulport site.
The role
As a Marine Engineer – Engines and Generators, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be at the heart of maintaining and improving critical infrastructure that supports national defence work that truly matters. This is your chance to make a tangible impact while developing your career in a dynamic, forward-thinking environment.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
1. Providing expert support for engine-related systems in engine rooms
2. Diagnosing and resolving mechanical and POL (Petrol, Oils & Lubricants) issues
3. Supporting maintenance teams and projects with your specialist knowledge
4. Ensuring safety, quality, and environmental standards are upheld
5. Acting as an Authorised Person for Mechanical Pressure Systems and POL
This role is full time, 36 hours per week and is based on site at RNAD Coulport.
Essential experience of the Marine Engineer – Engines and Generators
6. Proven experience working on Diesel, Oil, or Petrol engines
7. Hands-on experience with Generators
Qualifications for the Marine Engineer – Engines and Generators
8. 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.
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
9. Generous holiday allowance
10. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
11. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
12. Employee shopping savings portal
13. Payment of Professional Fees
14. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
15. 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.
16. ‘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
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.
We are a disability confident committed employer.