Job Title: Senior Electrical Maintenance Engineer
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £48,000 - £58,000 depending on experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF76608
Help maintain the critical infrastructure that supports the United Kingdom's defence capability
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 Senior Electrical Maintenance Engineer at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.
The role
As a Senior Electrical Maintenance Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll take a leading role in safeguarding critical electrical infrastructure that supports the United Kingdom's naval and nuclear defence operations. This is far more than a traditional maintenance position. You'll provide technical leadership, coordinate specialist engineering teams, and ensure complex electrical systems remain safe, compliant, and operational at one of the country's most strategically important defence sites.
Day-to-day you'll be required to:
- Lead specialist electrical engineering teams to deliver planned and reactive maintenance activities safely, compliantly, and on schedule.
- Provide technical expertise for electrical infrastructure, supporting fault finding, inspections, testing, and engineering assurance activities.
- Monitor asset performance, identifying risks, prioritising actions, and driving continuous improvement initiatives.
- Engage with customers, contractors, and internal stakeholders at technical reviews, safety forums, and governance meetings.
- Ensure compliance with statutory regulations, engineering standards, and site-specific safety requirements.
This role is full time, 36 hours per week Monday to Thursday 07:15 – 16:45. Flexible working arrangements and agile hours are available where business needs allow.
Essential experience of the Senior Electrical Maintenance Engineer
- Proven experience within electrical maintenance and infrastructure environments.
- Experience working with Low Voltage electrical systems, including fault finding, inspection, testing, and maintenance.
- Experience operating within a highly regulated or safety-critical industry such as defence, nuclear, utilities, marine, rail, oil and gas, or heavy industry.
- Strong knowledge of electrical compliance requirements, engineering standards, and safety regulations.
- Experience leading or coordinating engineering teams and managing multiple stakeholders.
Qualifications for the Senior Electrical Maintenance Engineer
- Recognised qualification in Electrical Engineering such as HNC, HND, NVQ Level 3, City & Guilds, Degree, or equivalent experience.
- Demonstrable competence in Low Voltage electrical systems, including inspection, testing, and maintenance.
- Knowledge of BS 7671 IET Wiring Regulations and electrical safe systems of work.
- Formal electrical engineering or maintenance qualification suitable for industrial or infrastructure environments
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 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 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: 19/11/2026
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