Mechanical Fitter in Helensburgh

Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute

Compensation: £40,967 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Build a Career That Helps Protect the Nation

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

The role

As a Mechanical Fitter, you’ll play a crucial role within our Facility Processing team where your skills will support some of the UK’s most important engineering operations. This is hands‑on work that keeps critical mechanical systems running safely and smoothly contributing directly to national security and supporting the Royal Navy’s ability to operate effectively. You’ll gain experience across a wide range of equipment and systems, carry out maintenance in a specialist environment, and build a career with real purpose. You’ll also join a team committed to engineering excellence, personal development, and continuous improvement.

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

• Undertake mechanical fitting activities, repairs and inspections across Facility Processing systems and equipment
• Complete planned preventative maintenance and nuclear‑implicated tasks to meet business objectives
• Identify and rectify system defects, manufacturing issues and alterations to maintain system performance
• Work within all Health & Safety legislation, Safe Systems of Work and Babcock BM&T Clyde policy
• Make suggestions to improve systems and processes to boost productivity and engineering performance.

This is a full‑time role, 36 hours per week, based on site at RNAD Coulport. Set working times: 07:15 to 16:45, Monday to Thursday, giving you a three‑day weekend.

Essential experience of the Mechanical Fitter

• Experience within a marine or industrial engineering environment and/or mechanical maintenance
• Comfortable working at heights, in confined spaces and in varied weather conditions
• Able to understand and interpret engineering drawings and apply strong problem‑solving skills
• High attention to detail with a focus on quality and fault‑finding
• Experience of maintenance procedures, risk assessments, COSHH and Safe Systems of Work.

Qualifications for the Mechanical Fitter

Essential:

• Recognised Mechanical Engineering Apprenticeship at SVQ Level 3 (or NVQ / City & Guilds equivalent), or HNC or above in a Mechanical Engineering discipline with relevant industry experience.

Preferred:

• Additional training or certifications in mechanical, marine or defence‑related disciplines.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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.

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.
• ‘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 26/05/2026