Job Title: Electrician
Location: Camberley, Surrey
Compensation: From £37,698 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF68495
Power Up Your Career in 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 Electrician at Minley, near Blackwater, Hampshire.
The role
As an Electrician, you’ll be responsible for delivering planned and reactive electrical maintenance across the site. From fault diagnosis to inspection and testing, your work will help ensure the safety, reliability and efficiency of critical infrastructure that supports defence training operations. This is a hands-on role where your technical expertise will make a real difference, and you’ll be part of a team that values precision, collaboration and continuous improvement.
Day-to-day you’ll be required to:
- Carry out expert fault diagnosis and coordinate repairs across the estate.
- Deliver a regime of testing and inspection for electrical systems, power distribution, lighting, wiring and controls.
- Support predictive maintenance programmes aligned with asset management plans.
- Maintain accurate inventory of electrical supplies and components.
- Identify and implement improvements to electrical services and infrastructure.
Please note that this position involves manual work. This could include lifting, bending, using tools or standing for extended periods of time.
This is a full-time role, totalling 40 hours per week, based at Minley. Working Monday to Thursday, 8am–4:30pm, and Friday, 8am–4pm. Participation in an on-call rota will be required after six months, with additional pay and overtime rates.
Essential experience of the Electrician:
- Previous experience in a similar working environment.
Qualifications for the Electrician:
- City & Guilds Level 3 Electrical Qualification
- Latest Edition Wiring Regulations – BS7671 (18th Edition)
- Initial and Periodic Electrical Inspection and Testing (2391)
- Full UK Driving Licence
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) 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: 19/03/2025
