Job Title: Lifting and Slinging Specialist
Location: Ashton Vale, Bristol
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF65632
Take Your Skills to New Heights
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 Lifting and Slinging Specialist at our Ashton Vale site.
The role
As a Lifting and Slinging Specialist, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be the technical authority for all lifting and slinging operations across our manufacturing facility, ensuring safety, compliance, and efficiency.
Day-to-day, you’ll
- Act as the SME for lifting and slinging, providing training and guidance to shop floor operatives.
- Produce lift plans and ensure all lifting activities comply with legislation and Babcock policy.
- Lead the planning and execution of lifting operations across the Bristol site.
- Collaborate with manufacturing engineers, operations managers, and safety teams to support upcoming work packages.
- Manage lifting equipment stores and ensure all equipment is maintained, inspected, and fit for purpose.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Ashton Vale, Bristol.
Essential experience of the Lifting and Slinging Specialist:
- Experience in lifting equipment inspections and overhead crane operations.
- Proven experience in complex lifting and slinging operations.
- Ability to read and interpret technical drawings related to lifting and handling.
Qualifications for the Lifting and Slinging Specialist:
- Relevant slinging/lifting qualification or certificate with experience.
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. 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: 13/03/2026
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