Job Title: Electrical Fitter
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation: £40,967
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73147
Power your career supporting critical infrastructure that keeps the nation safe
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 HMNB Clyde, near Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute.
From maintaining essential defence infrastructure to enabling mission-critical operations, you’ll be part of a team that delivers real impact every day. A career in defence, aerospace and engineering with Babcock means working on meaningful projects, developing your skills, and helping to protect what matters most.
The role
As an Electrical Fitter, you’ll play a key role in maintaining and improving electrical systems across a complex and high-profile defence estate. This is a hands-on role where no two days are the same — from routine maintenance to solving complex faults, your work will directly support operational readiness and site safety.
You’ll be part of a collaborative, skilled team where your expertise is valued and your development is supported. This role offers the opportunity to build on your technical skills while working in a dynamic environment that contributes to national security.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Carrying out planned preventative maintenance on electrical systems and equipment
- Identifying faults, defects and required alterations to maintain performance and reliability
- Supporting trades and collaborating with colleagues across maintenance teams
- Ensuring all work is completed in line with safety regulations, policies and procedures
- Suggesting improvements to systems and processes to enhance performance and efficiency.
This is a full-time role working 36 hours per week, based on site at HMNB Clyde.
Essential experience of the Electrical Fitter
- Demonstrating experience working with electrical systems, equipment and maintenance processes
- Applying knowledge of regulations, health and safety standards and documentation
- Carrying out electrical fault finding, repairs and installation work
- Working within controlled environments and following safe systems of work.
Qualifications for the Electrical Fitter
- SVQ Level 3 in Electrical Installation, Maintenance or equivalent qualification (essential)
- 2391 Test and Inspection qualification (advantageous)
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 United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.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.
Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 18/06/2026
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