Job Title: Electrical Fitter
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation: £40,124
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.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following 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 of the Electrical Fitter:
- 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 for the Electrical Fitter:
- 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.
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: 19/03/2026
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