Plumber in Helensburgh

Help maintain the infrastructure that supports the safety and security of 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 Plumber at HM Naval Base Clyde, near Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute. This is an exciting opportunity to join our Naval Nuclear Clyde team, supporting critical estate infrastructure within one of the UK's most important defence environments. You'll play a key role in ensuring essential plumbing systems remain safe, compliant and operational, directly contributing to the effectiveness of the facilities that support national security.

The role:

• As a Plumber, you'll undertake a wide range of plumbing activities across estate systems and equipment, helping to maintain safe, reliable and efficient facilities.
• This is a hands‑on role where your expertise will make a real difference, ensuring planned maintenance is completed to a high standard while identifying and resolving faults before they impact operations.

Day‑to‑day, you’ll be required to:

• Carrying out planned preventative maintenance activities across estate plumbing systems and equipment.
• Identifying, diagnosing and rectifying system defects, faults and alterations.
• Ensuring all work is completed in accordance with current procedures, quality standards and timescales.
• Working safely in compliance with health and safety legislation, safe systems of work and control of work processes.
• Contributing improvement ideas to enhance productivity, efficiency, and system performance.

This role is 40 hours per week, based at HM Naval Base Clyde. Set working times are Monday to Friday. This is a full‑time onsite role.

Essential experience of the Plumber:

• Experience working on commercial or industrial plumbing systems and associated maintenance activities.
• Experience in Legionella disinfection of water supply systems within buildings.
• Knowledge of Legionellosis control within hot and cold‑water systems.
• Experience undertaking water systems hazard identification and risk assessments.
• Understanding of relevant health, safety and compliance requirements, including manual handling practices.

Qualifications for the Plumber:

• Recognised Plumbing Apprenticeship or equivalent qualification.
• Valid UK Driving Licence.
• Asbestos Awareness certification.
• Confined Space Competent Person certification.
• Emergency First Aid qualification.

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:

• 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: 11/08/2026