Electrical Fitter

Job Title:              Electrical Fitter
Location:              Plymouth, UK + Onsite
Compensation:    Competitive + Benefits
Role Type:            Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                53005

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 Electrical Fitter at our Devonport Royal Dockyard.

The role
As an electrical fitter, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll play an integral part in ensuring the serviceability of our warships, submarines, estates, factories and cranes department through detailed maintenance and refit periods by working within multi-trade teams on some of the most exciting engineering projects this country has to offer. In this role you will:

• Work on a wide variety of electrical systems and equipment from distribution, command, and control systems, Such as Weapons, Navigation, and communications
• Work to engineering drawings and technical specifications, you’ll also overhaul existing and install new equipment, you could also be carrying out system and equipment functional tests and surveys

The position is full-time, comprising 35 hours per week, with hours from Monday to Thursday, 07:30 to 15:30, and Friday, 07:30 to 12:30. It's located at Devonport Royal Dockyard. Optional overtime and shift work available depending on assigned work sections.

Essential experience of the Electrical Fitter 

You will have one of the following:

• Time served apprentice within the field of marine electrical engineering / naval engineering environment
• Indentured Apprenticeship in an Electrical discipline
• Level 3 Modern Apprenticeship in an Electrical discipline
• Level 3 Electrical Engineering qualification

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 
• Potential to develop skills.
• Opportunity to work on some of the most exciting engineering projects this country has to offer.
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Opportunity to work with innovative technology.
• 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘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 International 
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal. 

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: 05/08/2024

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