Rigger

Job Title:                     Rigger

Location:                     Plymouth, Devon

Compensation:           £35,362 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF71597

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 Rigger at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role

This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys hands‑on, physical work, problem‑solving, and contributing directly to projects that matter.

Day-to-day, you’ll be part of a specialist trade at the heart of our waterfront operations, supporting the manufacture, testing and installation of marine‑based rigging across a dynamic naval environment. No two days are the same. You’ll work with bespoke equipment, collaborate with skilled engineers and production teams, and play an essential role in enabling the safe operation of critical defence assets.

• Surveying, measuring, manufacturing and testing rigging components used across vessels and waterfront operations.
• Installing parafoils, safety nets, halyards and dressing lines onboard various platforms.
• Operating winches, davits and associated lifting equipment safely and effectively.
• Using sewing machines and undertaking basic sail making for rigging‑related fittings.
• Working collaboratively with production engineers, birthing officers and operational teams across the site.

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

Essential experience of the Rigger

• Knowledge of LEA and LOLA 98 processes or accreditations.
• Experience in rigging manufacture or similar trade background.
• Strong understanding of bottle screws, shackles, thimbles and blocks.
• Ability to work confidently and safely at height.
• Slinging and lifting experience (training provided where required, including forklift and slinger duties).

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

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 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: 26/02/2026

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