Electrical Instrumentation Technician

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Helensburgh; On-site; GBP 28,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Matched contribution pension

Digital GP and health checks

Employee shopping portal

Payment of professional fees

Reservists 10-days paid leave

Be Kind Day

Holiday Trading

Job summary

Babcock is seeking an Electrical Instrumentation Technician for the HMNB Clyde Faslane site in Helensburgh, UK. This full-time, on-site role supports critical defence infrastructure by calibrating and maintaining TMDE equipment and electrical/electronic systems to ensure reliability and readiness.

You will perform fault-finding, testing, and repair work, develop calibration procedures, and uphold strict safety and environmental standards across activities, with opportunity for training and

Qualifications

• Proven fault-finding on electrical/electronic systems in engineering environments.
• Experience delivering tasks safely, to quality and schedule targets.
• Ability to read and follow technical documentation and inspection records.

Responsibilities

• Calibrate, adjust, fault-find and repair a broad range of test, measurement and diagnostic equipment.
• Deliver technical work packages safely and to defined quality, cost and schedule requirements.
• Carry out risk assessments and apply safety, quality and environmental standards across activities.
• Develop and maintain calibration procedures, checklists and documentation for equipment.
• Perform electrical testing and inspection to maintain compliance and readiness.

Skills

Fault-finding

Calibration

Electrical testing

Safety standards

Education

Recognised Electrical or Electronics Apprenticeship

Tools

TMDE

Job description

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Location:

Helensburgh, GB, G84 8HL

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Job Title: Electrical Instrumentation Technician

Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF75940

Help keep critical defence capabilities operating at their best

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 Electrical Instrumentation Technician at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.

The role

As aElectrical Instrumentation Technician, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll play a vital role in supporting one of the UK's most important maritime defence establishments. Working with specialist Test, Measurement and Diagnostic Equipment (TMDE), you'll help ensure critical systems remain accurate, reliable and ready to support defence operations.

Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

• Carrying out calibration, adjustment, fault-finding and repair activities on a wide range of test, measurement and diagnostic equipment.
• Delivering technical work packages safely, accurately and in line with quality, cost and schedule requirements.
• Completing risk assessments and applying safety, quality and environmental standards across all activities.
• Developing and maintaining calibration procedures, checklists and technical documentation for new and existing equipment.
• Performing electrical testing and inspection activities to maintain equipment compliance, reliability and operational readiness.

This role is full time, 36 hours per week and is based on site at HMNB Clyde Faslane.

Essential experience of the Electrical Instrumentation Technician

• Proven experience fault-finding, testing and maintaining electrical or electronic systems within an engineering environment.
• Experience working to strict safety, quality and environmental standards.
• Ability to deliver technical tasks and work packages to agreed timescales and performance targets.
• Experience producing, interpreting or following technical documentation, procedures and inspection records.
• Ideally, experience in the calibration, diagnosis and repair of Test, Measurement and Diagnostic Equipment, although candidates with an electrical engineering background are encouraged to apply as training can be provided.

Qualifications for the Electrical Instrumentation Technician

• Recognised Electrical or Electronics Apprenticeship

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

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
• 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

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 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 [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.

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