Electrical Fitter

Job Description

Job Title: Electrical Fitter

Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute

Compensation: £40,967 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF72250

Powering the Future of Defence Engineering

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Electrical Fitter at Coulport, near Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute.

The role

As an Electrical Fitter, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring the safe, reliable and effective operation of essential estates equipment that underpins some of the UK’s most critical defence activities. Your work will help keep our facilities running smoothly, supporting national security while advancing your own technical expertise and career development.

You’ll join a highly skilled estates maintenance team responsible for electrical systems across the site. This is an exciting opportunity to work on varied tasking-ranging from everyday maintenance to complex multi day projects-while growing your capability in a dynamic engineering environment.

Responsibilities

• Carry out planned preventative maintenance to help the department meet operational objectives.
• Identify and rectify electrical defects to maintain the performance and availability of estate systems.
• Work within Babcock’s processes and contribute ideas to improve systems, productivity and efficiency.
• Adhere to all Health & Safety legislation and Safe Systems of Work.
• Support trades across the estate as required, including tasks such as fault finding, replacing fittings and completing repairs.

This is a full time, on site role, working 36 hours per week at Coulport.

Essential Experience

• Knowledge of electrical systems, equipment and associated regulations.
• Experience working with maintenance documentation.
• Understanding of COSHH requirements.
• Background in environments such as shipbuilding, construction, oil and gas, aviation or manufacturing.
• Ability to interpret and work from technical information and drawings.

Qualifications

• SVQ Level 3 in Electrical Fitting or equivalent.

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.

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. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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.

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.