Simulator Operator

Job Title:                  Simulator Operator
Location:                  Faslane, Argyll & Bute
Compensation:        £25,000 to £30,000
Role Type:                Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:                     SF63967

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 Simulator Operator at our Faslane site.

The role
As a Simulator Operator, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This role is to support Astute Class Operations and Ship Control Training within the Submarine Command Team.

Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:

• Training delivery, accountable to the Operations Manager: provide training support to instructional staff and to students with a wide range of experience, (predominantly within the SCTT and SCT disciplines). All training support is to be delivered to prescribed standards and within contractual requirements.
• Administration: to conduct all administration and reporting activities associated with supporting the delivery of training to contractual requirement and also as otherwise directed by the management team
• Administration: to conduct all administration and reporting activities associated with the delivery of training to contractual requirement and also as otherwise directed by the management. Provide administrative support other business areas. This may include tasks such as Data Management or SQEP reporting.
• Ensure Company health, safety and environmental procedures are implemented and complied with at all times.

This role is full time and based onsite at our Faslane site.

Essential experience of the Simulator Operator:

• Excellent team working and relationship building skills
• Highly organised; able to manage multiple competing priorities
• Well-developed written and verbal communication skills
• Proficient user of IT systems, including Microsoft Office suite of software

Qualifications for the Simulator Operator:

• We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and 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 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: 23/05/2025