Job Title: Underwater Engineer
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation: Up to £48,000 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF70839
Engineer beneath the surface — keep critical naval assets mission‑ready while building a career that matters.
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 Underwater Engineer at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.
The role
As a Underwater Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. you’ll deliver technical leadership across in‑water and diving work packages that keep vessels safe, available and compliant. You’ll act as a trusted point of contact for underwater activities, shaping method statements, assuring safety documentation and standards, and collaborating across Fleet Operations to solve complex challenges. It is meaningful work with real‑world impact and a powerful platform to broaden your engineering capability in defence, aerospace and marine engineering.
Day‑to‑day you’ll be required to:
- Provide technical engineering support and guidance to in‑water and diving work packages.
- Review and apply safety documentation to underpin all underwater project activities.
- Act as the technical point of contact for underwater engineering across Fleet Operations.
- Develop clear, compliant method statements with stakeholders across the site.
- Assure compliance with relevant defence and industry standards, driving continuous improvement.
This role is full time, 36 hours per week Monday to Thursday 07:15 - 16:45 and is based on site at HMNB Clyde Faslane.
Essential experience of the Underwater Engineer
- Good understanding of underwater maintenance, inspection and repair techniques.
- Strong grounding in marine engineering practices.
- Awareness of submarine systems and equipment.
- Knowledge of safe systems of work and risk management.
- Understanding of commercial diving (desirable but not essential).
Qualifications for the Underwater Engineer
- Higher National Certificate (HNC) in Engineering, an Apprenticeship in Engineering, or equivalent experience.
- Association for Project Management – Project Fundamentals Qualification (PFQ) - desirable
- Microsoft Project training (Introduction/Intermediate) - desirable
- Confined Spaces for Competent Persons - desirable
- Commercial Diving Project Awareness - desirable
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 (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. 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 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: 29/01/2026
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