Job Title: Electrical Fitter - High Voltage
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation: £40,124 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF71059
Create a Safer, Secure World with Babcock
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 – High Voltage at HMNB Clyde, near Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
The role
As an Electrical Fitter – High Voltage within our Utilities section, you’ll take on a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be part of a team that supports the Ministry of Defence at HMNB Clyde, delivering specialist engineering services that keep critical infrastructure running. This is your chance to work on systems that matter — from high-voltage networks to essential power generation — and make a real difference to national security.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
- Carrying out planned and reactive maintenance on electrical systems, including LV and HV networks
- Investigating and diagnosing faults, ensuring timely and effective repairs
- Working to electrical regulations and safety standards
- Reading and interpreting engineering drawings to complete tasks accurately
- Maintaining Diesel Generators and other critical electrical equipment.
This is a full-time, permanent position, working 36 hours per week, Monday to Thursday, giving you a three-day weekend to balance work and life.
Essential experience of the Electrical Fitter - High Voltage:
- Proven experience in electrical fitting or maintenance within an industrial or commercial environment
- Ability to read and understand engineering drawings
- Strong focus on safety, including understanding risk assessments and work statements
- Comfortable working at height and in confined spaces when required
Qualifications for the Electrical Fitter - High Voltage:
- Recognised Electrical Apprenticeship, qualified to SVQ Level 3 or equivalent (NVQ3, City & Guilds, HNC etc.)
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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
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: 03/04/2026
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