Job Title: Non-Destructive Examination Engineer
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation: £39,668 - £47,868 depending on experience + 35% Shift Disturbance Allowance + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF76010
Help Keep the Royal Navy Fleet Mission Ready Through Advanced Engineering Inspection
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Non-Destructive Examination Engineer at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.
The role
As a Non-Destructive Examination Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll be part of a team of more than 30 specialists delivering critical inspection activities across submarine maintenance programmes. This role offers the opportunity to work with a range of non-destructive examination techniques while contributing directly to the safety and effectiveness of one of the UK's most important defence capabilities.
Day-to-day, you'll be required to:
- Conducting in-service and post-repair non-destructive examinations in accordance with industry standards and specifications.
- Performing inspections using radiographic, ultrasonic, magnetic particle, liquid penetrant, and visual inspection techniques.
- Producing accurate inspection reports and clearly communicating technical findings to stakeholders.
- Supporting radiation safety activities and acting as a Radiation Protection Supervisor when required.
- Maintaining the highest standards of quality, safety, and compliance across all inspection activities.
This role is full time, 36 hours per week and is based on site at HMNB Clyde Faslane. Shift patterns for this role are based on a 28-day rota comprising day shifts (07:15-19:40) and night shifts (18:45-07:10), attracting a Shift Disturbance Allowance.
Essential experience of the Non-Destructive Examination Engineer
- Experience working with non-destructive examination or inspection techniques.
- Demonstrable understanding of engineering inspection standards and practices.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to explain technical findings clearly.
- Ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary engineering environment.
- Strong attention to detail and commitment to quality and safety standards.
Qualifications for the Non-Destructive Examination Engineer
- PCN Level II in Radiography.
- Minimum of one additional PCN Level II qualification in one of the following: Penetrant Testing, Magnetic Particle Testing, Visual Inspection, or Ultrasonics (3.1/3.2).
- PCN Level II Eddy Current – desirable
- PCN Level II Advanced Radiation Safety – desirable
- CSWIP 3.0 or CSWIP 3.1 – desirable
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be 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 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: 02/10/2026
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