Job Title: Clerk of Works
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation: £37,000 - £46,000 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73459
Help deliver critical infrastructure that supports 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 Clerk of Works at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.
The role
As a Clerk of Works, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a vital role in supporting Fleet programmes at HMNB Clyde, ensuring that contractors deliver work safely, compliantly and to the highest quality standards. Working at the heart of our Fleet infrastructure projects, you’ll act as a key link between project teams and contractors, helping to maintain the performance, readiness and safety of critical naval assets.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Ensuring contractors comply with safety, health, environmental, quality and security standards and CDM regulations
- Reviewing and approving risk assessments and method statements to ensure safe delivery of works
- Monitoring contractor performance to ensure projects are delivered on time, in full and to specification
- Acting as the main point of contact for contractors, supporting daily operations and resolving issues on site
- Providing regular reports and updates to the Project Manager on progress, risks and performance
This role is full time, 36 hours per week Monday to Thursday 07:15 – 16:45 and is based on site at HMNB Clyde Faslane.
Essential experience of the Clerk of Works
- Demonstrable experience in project or subcontractor control within construction or engineering environments
- Strong working knowledge of Construction Design Management Regulations
- Experience managing contractor compliance with safety and quality standards
- Ability to monitor, report and track project performance against plans
- Experience working in high-safety or highly regulated environments
Qualifications for the Clerk of Works
- Minimum HNC or equivalent in Engineering, Health and Safety, or a related discipline, or equivalent experience
- Recognised health and safety qualification such as NEBOSH, IOSH Managing Safely, or Site Management Safety Training Scheme
- Membership of a relevant professional body is desirable
- Certifications in Working at Height or Confined Spaces is 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 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 [email protected] 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: 03/07/2026
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