Job Title: Pipe Fitter
Location: Rosyth, Fife
Compensation: £39,231
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF71913
Build the Future of UK Defence and Engineering
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Pipe Fitter at Rosyth, near Dunfermline, Fife.
The role
As a Pipe Fitter, you’ll play a vital role in delivering some of the UK’s most important defence and marine engineering programmes. Your expertise will help bring the Type 31 / Inspiration Class frigates to life—ships that will serve the Royal Navy for decades to come.
This is hands‑on engineering with purpose. You’ll work with high‑integrity pipe systems, contribute to complex shipbuilding operations, and develop your career across the full spectrum of defence, aerospace and engineering projects. With opportunities to broaden your skills and progress, this is your chance to shape a career that is both technically rewarding and deeply meaningful.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
- Fabricate, install and assemble a variety of marine‑grade pipe systems.
- Prepare pipework through cutting, bending, forming and alignment.
- Install systems such as fuel, water, fire main, hydraulics and HVAC onboard vessels.
- Interpret drawings, isometrics and technical specifications with accuracy.
- Work safely in shipyard environments, including confined spaces and at height.
This is a full‑time position working 36 hours per week, based on site at Rosyth.
Essential experience of the Pipe Fitter:
- Experience in pipe fabrication, pipe fitting or TIG pipe welding within shipbuilding, marine engineering, oil and gas or heavy engineering.
- Strong understanding of pipework installation, fabrication and welding standards.
- Ability to work confidently from drawings and to tight tolerances.
- Comfortable working in workshop and onboard vessel environments.
- Strong teamwork, communication and problem‑solving skills.
Qualifications for the Pipe Fitter:
- Recognised Apprenticeship or NVQ Level 3 in Fabrication, Pipefitting, Welding or Mechanical Engineering (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: 27/03/2026
