Job Title: Metal Worker
Location: Sleaford, Lincolnshire
Compensation: £30, Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF67706
Shape the Future of Engineering Excellence
At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Metal Worker at our Cranwell site, near Sleaford, Lincolnshire.
The role
As a Metal Worker, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll be at the heart of our aviation engineering operations, helping to design and manufacture critical components that support our defence and aerospace missions. This is a hands-on role where your craftsmanship and precision will directly contribute to national security and operational readiness. It's a chance to grow your skills, work with cutting-edge equipment, and be part of a team that values quality, safety, and innovation.
Day-to-day, you'll be:
* Operating the engraving machine (training provided if needed)
* Ensuring all tasks are completed safely and efficiently
* Adhering to the local tool control system
* Deputising for the metal workshop inventory
* Maintaining workshop machinery as directed by the Team Leader
This role is full time, working 39 hours per week on-site at Cranwell.
Essential experience of the Metal Worker:
* PC Literate with good IT Skills, experience of Microsoft office.
* Knowledge of MOD Engineering procedures/documentation.
* Ability to demonstrate the practical and theoretical standards required of the role
* Sound knowledge of Safety
* Experience with material varying in thickness
Qualifications for the Metal Worker:
* Level 3 Qualification in a Metal Workshop Engineering Discipline
* Level 3 Qualification in MIG/TIG Welding (Mild Steel, Stainless Steel & Aluminium)
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 United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK ).
What we offer
* Generous holiday allowance
* Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
* Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
* Employee share scheme
* Employee shopping savings portal
* Payment of Professional Fees
* Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
* 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.
* '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
* Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We're committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone's free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 03/01/2026
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