Delivery Coordinator Scaffolding

Babcock International; Helensburgh; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 53,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm in Helensburgh is seeking a Delivery Coordinator Scaffolding to oversee safe and efficient scaffold solutions in a dynamic environment. This full-time role is vital for supporting engineering projects within national security, requiring leadership and planning skills. Candidates should possess experience in scaffolding and related IT knowledge. The company offers a generous benefits package including a matched pension scheme, holiday trading, and professional development opportunities.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Leadership experience in a scaffolding or industrial setting.
• Good IT skills for scheduling, documentation, and reporting.
• Specialism in working at height and scaffold solutions within engineering environments.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate scaffold delivery, alterations, and removals to meet programme milestones and safety standards.
• Lead and mentor advanced scaffolders and contractors, driving a positive safety culture.
• Plan and sequence work at height activities while aligning resources and documentation.
• Collaborate with engineering departments and project managers.
• Track progress and report status using IT systems.

Job description

Job Title: Delivery Coordinator Scaffolding

Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute

Compensation: £44,564 - £52,123 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Lead safe, smart scaffolding that keeps critical defence engineering moving.

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 Delivery Coordinator Scaffolding at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.

The role

As a Delivery Coordinator Scaffolding, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll coordinate safe, efficient scaffold solutions across a complex engineering environment - supporting vital projects that protect national security and the communities we serve. It’s a role where your leadership and planning skills directly enable safe working at height, enhance project delivery, and accelerate your own development in a dynamic, high‑impact sector spanning defence, aerospace and engineering.

Day‑to‑day you’ll be required to:

• Coordinate scaffold delivery, alterations and removals to meet programme milestones and safety standards.
• Lead and mentor advanced scaffolders and contractors, driving a positive safety culture and quality outcomes.
• Plan and sequence work at height activities, aligning resources and documentation for smooth execution.
• Collaborate with Fleet Engineering departments, infrastructure teams, ship staff and project managers.
• Track progress and use IT systems to report status, risks and completions clearly and consistently.

This role is full time, 36 hours per week Monday to Thursday 07:15 – 16:45 and is based on site at HMNB Clyde Faslane.

Essential experience of the Delivery Coordinator Scaffolding

• Leadership experience in a scaffolding or industrial setting.
• Good IT skills for scheduling, documentation and reporting.
• Specialism in working at height and scaffold solutions within engineering environments.

Qualifications for the Delivery Coordinator Scaffolding

• CISRS Advanced Gold Card
• Leadership training or a recognised management certificate - advantageous

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be 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. This Window opens February through to March annually.
• ‘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 International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

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 [e-mail] 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: 05/01/2026

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