Welding Engineer in Plymouth

Shape the future of welding excellence on some of the UK’s most critical defence projects. 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 Welding Engineer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role involves:

• Taking ownership of welding governance across the site, providing expert advice, driving innovation and helping shape processes that directly support national security.
• Ensuring compliance with Babcock’s Weld Quality Management System (ISO3834‑2) and upholding high welding standards across all activities.
• Managing the introduction and implementation of new welding procedures, working closely with site welders and overseeing equipment and workshop practices.
• Authoring technical reports, proposals and recommendations for specialist welding solutions using your materials expertise.
• Assessing subcontractor quality systems to ensure consistency, capability and alignment with Babcock’s welding requirements.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential experience:

• Strong understanding of welding processes and techniques.
• Experience working with welding quality systems or operational welding environments.
• Ability to provide technical guidance and support to multidisciplinary teams.
• Confidence in producing technical documentation or assessments.
• Strong problem‑solving approach with a commitment to high safety and engineering standards.

Qualifications:

• National Skills Framework Level 5 qualification (or equivalent), such as Foundation degree, Diploma, HND, BEng/BSc or MEng/MSc (in relevant engineering disciplines).
• Additional welding, materials or quality‑related technical training or certifications - Desirable.

Security Clearance: The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (NNPPI) security clearance for this role.

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 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 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. 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 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: 06/02/2026