Job Title: Coating Surveyor
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: Up to £40,700 Depending on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF75890
Help Protect and Preserve the Future of the Royal Navy
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 Coating Surveyor at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Coating Surveyor, you’ll play a vital role in supporting the maintenance, preservation and operational readiness of Royal Navy submarines, warships and key marine infrastructure. Working within the Surveying Section of the Marine Platform Support Group, part of our Technical Design Division, you'll provide specialist coating and paint inspection expertise that helps extend asset life, maintain safety standards and protect some of the UK's most important defence capabilities.
Day-to-day, you’ll have an exciting opportunity to combine technical inspection, quality assurance and customer engagement while developing your expertise in a highly specialised engineering environment. Your work will directly support critical defence programmes and contribute to the long-term sustainability of vital naval assets.
- Conducting coating and paint inspections, condition surveys and assessments across naval platforms, marine structures, nuclear reactors and radiological projects.
- Producing survey reports, defect assessments, remedial recommendations and corrective action plans for customers.
- Assessing the condition of coatings and developing specifications to support the longevity of Ministry of Defence assets and infrastructure.
- Monitoring quality assurance and quality control activities to ensure coating applications meet customer and regulatory requirements.
- Supporting technical queries from customers, subcontractors and project teams relating to coating specifications, surface preparation and application methods.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week, and is based at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential experience of the Coating Surveyor
- Strong Trade background with working knowledge of coating processes and procedures, particularly within marine or similar industrial environments.
- Experience carrying out paint and coating inspections, surveys and assessments, and producing technical reports and work specifications.
- Understanding of health and safety policies, procedures and safe working practices.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to engage effectively with customers and technical stakeholders.
- Experience using calibrated inspection equipment and Microsoft Office applications.
Qualifications for the Coating Surveyor
Relevant engineering or trade experience, gained through formal qualifications, apprenticeship training, industry-recognised certification (e.g. ICorr, IMO PSPC), or substantial hands-on experience in a similar role.
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 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: 23/10/2026
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