Industrial Painter

Job Title:             Industrial Painter
Location:             Plymouth, Devon
Compensation:    £31,229 - £35,530 + Benefits - Gross OTE £44,724 - £50,882
Role Type:           Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:               SF64765

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Industrial Painter at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

As an Industrial Painter, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Join our team at Devonport Dockyard, applying expert surface preparation and precision coating techniques to protect submarine surfaces. Use airless spray, brush, and rollers to ensure they meet the highest standards. 

Day-to-day, you’ll perform surface preparation and coating applications with precision, ensuring maintenance and adherence to high-quality standards in submarine surface protection.

• Systematically prepare bare substrates and existing coatings.
• Provide technical guidance to employees on relevant techniques and procedures.
• Maintain working area cleanliness and ensure equipment protection.
• Apply Damage Control markings on raised tallies.

This role is full time 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard. 

There is an opportunity for Optimised Working Patterns (OWP) within this role. OWP is a temporary variation to your standard terms and condition that commits you to support 7-day working arrangements. For full details of the patterns, pay and durations, this can be found in the OWP 1 and OWP 2 agreements (available from hiring manager).

Primarily, it involves 4-week shift cycles consisting of either day/back shift or day/night shift. An example of the remuneration for these shifts is as follows:

Gross salary: £31,229 - £35,530
Gross OTE for core Dayshift/Backshift Pattern: £ 44,724 - £50,882

Essential experience of the Industrial Painter

• Previous experience in a marine, industrial, or commercial environment.
• Strong understanding of quality standards in surface preparation.
• Knowledge of paint Manufacturer’s Technical and Safety Data Sheets requirements.
• Proficiency in applying marine coatings using brush, roller, conventional spray, and airless spray.

Qualifications for the Industrial Painter

• NVQ level 3 Industrial / Marine / Painting / Decorating
• NVQ Level 2 Industrial / Marine / Painting / Decorating with the appetite to undertake additional training.
• ICATS

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS)  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 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 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: 12/06/2025

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