Location:
Helensburgh, GB, G84 8HL
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Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite
Job Title: Mechanical Fitter
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation: £40,967 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF67490
Help Keep the Royal Navy Operational
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Mechanical Fitter at Faslane, near Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute.
The role
As a Mechanical Fitter, you’ll take on a role that’s essential to supporting the Royal Navy’s fleet readiness. You’ll work at the heart of our Waterfront operations, carrying out mechanical fitting activities that keep complex engineering systems running safely, efficiently and reliably. This is a hands‑on engineering role where your work directly contributes to national security, protects communities and offers a career packed with challenge, purpose and progression.
You’ll join a highly skilled team committed to engineering excellence, continuous improvement and professional development. It’s a role where you can grow your expertise while making a meaningful impact every day.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
Completing planned preventative maintenance to support operational targets
Carrying out defect and repair activities on Waterfront mechanical systems and equipment
Working within Health & Safety legislation, Safe Systems of Work and BM&T Clyde procedures
Operating Waterfront systems and equipment in line with relevant procedures
Suggesting improvements to systems and processes to drive safety and productivity.
This is a full‑time role, 36 hours per week, Monday to Thursday, giving you a three‑day weekend, based on site at Faslane.
Essential experience of the Mechanical Fitter:
Proven mechanical fitting experience
Knowledge and experience of mechanical systems and equipment
Ability to interpret engineering drawings
Marine engineering background advantageous but not essential
Comfortable performing manual work, including lifting, bending and using tools.
Qualifications for the Mechanical Fitter:
Essential:
NVQ/SVQ Level 3 in a mechanical discipline or equivalent
Preferred:
Additional mechanical or engineering‑related training or certifications.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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. 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
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 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: 04/08/2026
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