Multi-Skilled Estates Operative in Helensburgh

Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute.

Role Type: Full time / Permanent.

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Help maintain critical infrastructure that supports the UK's defence mission. At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Multi‑Skilled Estates Operative at HM Naval Base Clyde, near Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute.

From maintaining essential estates infrastructure to supporting the operational readiness of one of the UK's most important defence locations, this is an opportunity to build a rewarding career where your work has real purpose. Join a team that values safety, collaboration and continuous improvement while helping to support vital national defence operations.

The role:

• As a Multi‑Skilled Estates Operative, you'll provide essential support across our Estates teams, helping to deliver planned preventative maintenance activities and ensuring the continued performance, safety and availability of critical facilities and infrastructure.
• You'll work alongside skilled engineering and estates professionals, gaining exposure to a varied and dynamic environment where no two days are the same.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone with practical estates or facilities experience who enjoys hands‑on work, takes pride in delivering high standards, and wants to contribute to projects that make a meaningful difference.

Day‑to‑day, you’ll be required to:

• Support Estates teams in the delivery of planned preventative maintenance activities across site.
• Assist engineering teams with identifying and rectifying system faults, defects, alterations and maintenance requirements.
• Carry out estates support activities including equipment operation and site services work.
• Work safely and compliantly in line with Health & Safety legislation, Safe Systems of Work and Control of Work processes.
• Contribute to continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance productivity, processes and working practices.

This role is based on site at HM Naval Base Clyde and is contracted to 36 hours per week, Monday to Thursday.

Essential experience:

• Experience of estates activities and associated equipment, including scaffolding, forklift truck operations or slinging activities.
• Knowledge of manual handling processes and safe working practices.
• Experience of completing or working to Risk Assessments.
• Understanding of COSHH requirements and procedures.
• Experience of working within Safe Systems of Work in a regulated or industrial environment.

Qualifications:

• Hot Work Operative/Sentry certification.
• Working at Height certification.
• Pristine Manual Handling training.
• Load/Unload Restraint – Truck Vehicle certification.

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.

What we offer:

• 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 allows employees to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave from their 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.
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock is 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.

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 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.