Scaffolder

Job Title:                     Scaffolder

Location:                     Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute

Compensation:           £30,295 - £40,124

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF70321

Build the structures that keep the Fleet moving.

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Scaffolder at Faslane, near Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute.

The role

As a Scaffolder, you’ll play an important part in supporting essential engineering and maintenance activities that keep the Royal Navy’s Fleet and wider site infrastructure operational. Your work will help ensure preventative maintenance, vital inspections and critical repair activities can be carried out safely and efficiently—directly contributing to national defence, energy security and the future of engineering within the UK.

This is an opportunity to develop your technical skillset in a unique environment while building a career that has purpose, impact and long‑term progression. You’ll join a team that values expertise, teamwork and continual improvement.

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

• Carry out scaffolding duties including tube and fitting, cup lock systems and maintenance of existing structures.
• Support engineering teams to safely complete planned preventative maintenance activities.
• Help identify and resolve defects, alterations and repairs to ensure the availability of submarines, vessels and estate infrastructure.
• Lead or participate in scaffold operations for which you are trained and assessed.
• Assist with wider tasks across the team when required.

You’ll work 36 hours per week, based on site at Faslane.

Essential experience of the Scaffolder:

• Experience providing scaffolding services to support engineering and maintenance activities.
• Ability to support identification and rectification of defects to maintain operational availability.
• Experience following established processes and contributing ideas for improvements.
• Ability to lead or participate in scaffold operations across tube and fitting and recognised system scaffold products.

Qualifications for the Scaffolder:

• Advanced Scaffolder – Blue Card
• Cup lock scaffolding experience

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is 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. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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 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: 19/02/2026

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