Job Title: Waterfront Multi Skilled Operative - Lift Supervisor
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation: £35,223, 11% SHI & 35% SDA
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF67407
Create a Safer World with Us.
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Waterfront Multi Skilled Operative - Lift Supervisor at HMNB Clyde, near Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute.
The role
We currently have opportunities for a Waterfront Multi Skilled Operative - Lift Supervisor to provide multi skilled support for the Waterfront Department as and when directed. Also provide Infrastructure Operations Lifting Supervisor Support for lifting operations activities in infrastructure Operations Facilities. When providing general MSO support and when acting as Lift Supervisor for lifting operations, they will ensure they carry out their duties in accordance with all current H&S legislation. For their lifting supervisor role, they must adhere to Lifting Operations and Lifting Equipment Regulation (LOLER) 1998 and BS:7121 (all volumes).
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Provide support to the Waterfront Department, undertaking maintenance and operational activities ensuring the completion of all tasks including lifting operations. Ensure the department meets the objectives of the Business, in relation to all reactive and planned maintenance activities and any heavy lift KPI’s.
- Provide supervision for safe lifting, ensuring that safe practices and protocols are adhered too throughout each lifting evolution. Following Lift Plans as directed by the Appointed Person’s Safe System of Work.
- Ensure that all work is carried out is in line with current processes and make suggestions on improvements to increase productivity, in accordance with department objectives and timescales.
- When undertaking the role of lift supervisor, provide supervision for safe lifting by following approved lift plans as directed by the Appointed Person and take a lead in relation to mentoring lifting work party members as directed again by the Appointed Person.
- Promote safe, compliant, and efficient conduct of all aspects of their role as an MSO, but particularly when fulfilling the role of lifting Supervisor. Report all non-conformances, incidents, and improvements to line management and for lifting operations to the Appointed Persons in the first instance.
This is a full-time, permanent position, based onsite at Faslane, Helensburgh.
Essential experience of the Waterfront Multi Skilled Operative - Lift Supervisor:
- Knowledge and understanding of LOLER, BS7121 & other industry applicable regulations and practices.
- Knowledge and understanding relating to the safe operation of base Mobile Cranes
- Knowledge and understanding relating to the safe operation of Service Logistic Derricks (SLD’s) located on the Valiant Jetty
- Knowledge and understanding relating to the safe operation of EOT cranes located within the Shiplift Facility
- Ability to operate Diesel Counterbalance Forklifts
- Knowledge and understanding of Waterfront operational activities (vessel berthing & slipping arrangements) and berth preps
Qualifications for the Waterfront Multi Skilled Operative - Lift Supervisor:
- Hold Driving Licence Category B
- Slinging Signaller N402S
- SVQ Level 3 Controlling Lifting Operations: Supervising Lifts
- NPORS N405 Crane/Lift Supervisor
- Rigging/Fleeting Slinging N047
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+
mployee 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
Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 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: 17/09/2026
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