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Plant Operator

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Permanent | Full-time
£37,529 a year
4 days ago

Benefits

Annual leave
Company pension

Qualifications

Driving Licence
NVQ

Full job description

Plant Operator

Location: Helensburgh, GB, G84 8HL

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Job Title: Plant Operator

Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute

Compensation: £37,529 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF73995

Help power a safer future through precision, safety and expertise

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 Plant Operator at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.

The role

As a Plant Operator, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a key role in supporting critical defence infrastructure, working within a brand-new facility that brings together all radioactive activities across the HMNB Clyde site. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to vital operations that protect people, the environment and national security.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

Carrying out workplace radiation and contamination surveys to maintain safe operating conditions
Providing monitoring services for personnel, materials and radioactive waste
Supporting waste collection, processing, disposal and radioactive liquid handling
Delivering radiation protection briefings and performing decontamination activities
Maintaining accurate records to ensure full traceability and regulatory compliance

This role is full time, 36 hours per week and is based on site at HMNB Clyde Faslane.

Essential experience of the Plant Operator

Experience in heavy plant operations, ideally within a highly regulated environment
Demonstrating strong understanding of safe systems of work and health and safety compliance
Working in confined spaces and/or at height
Operating as a slinger/signaller or within similar lifting operations
Applying practical problem-solving skills in operational environments

Qualifications for the Plant Operator

Valid UK driving licence
Licences for diesel counterbalance vehicles (Category B2/B3) and HGV/LGV Category 2 are advantageous, but can be supported through training
Radiation Safety Practice NVQ Level 2 or equivalent is desirable, with training available

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 [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: 23/06/2026

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