Electrical Maintenance Team Leader

WeServed; Helensburgh; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 47,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme, '

life assurance

Digital GP and health checks

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Reservists special leave

Holiday Trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock is seeking an Electrical Maintenance Team Leader to head a on-site team at HMNB Clyde Faslane, overseeing maintenance of critical electrical and engineering systems for submarine operations. The role demands leadership in a regulated defence environment, with a focus on safety, efficiency, and continuous improvement.

You will coordinate maintenance activities, mentor technicians, and drive performance while ensuring work is completed to the highest standards.

Qualifications

• Electrical maintenance experience gained within an industrial, marine, defence, engineering, manufacturing, or similar setting.
• Knowledge of safe systems of work, including areas such as working at height and confined spaces.
• Experience developing, mentoring, and supporting team members.
• Good information technology skills, including the use of Microsoft Office applications.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team of technicians carrying out maintenance on electrical and engineering systems.
• Coordinate planned and reactive maintenance activities to ensure operational availability.
• Diagnose faults, investigate equipment failures and implement effective corrective actions.
• Support maintenance planning, resource allocation and continuous improvement activities.
• Drive high standards of safety, quality and performance across the team.

Skills

Electrical maintenance

Leadership

Team management

Electrical systems

Education

Level 3 electrical qualification

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

Job Title: Electrical Maintenance Team Leader

Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute

Compensation: £42,000 - £46,500 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76347

Help keep the UK's critical naval infrastructure operating at its 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 an Electrical Maintenance Team Leader at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.

The role

As an Electrical Maintenance Team Leader , you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll lead a team responsible for maintaining and improving the critical electrical and engineering systems that support submarine operations at HMNB Clyde. Working in a highly regulated environment, you'll coordinate maintenance activities, resolve technical issues, manage small engineering projects and ensure work is completed safely, on time and to the highest standards. This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced electrical maintenance professional looking to step into a leadership role within a unique defence environment.

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

• Lead a team of technicians carrying out maintenance on electrical and engineering systems.
• Coordinate planned and reactive maintenance activities to ensure operational availability.
• Diagnose faults, investigate equipment failures and implement effective corrective actions.
• Support maintenance planning, resource allocation and continuous improvement activities.
• Drive high standards of safety, quality and performance across the team.

This role is full time, 36 hours per week Monday to Thrusday and is based on site at Faslane.

Essential experience of the Electrical Maintenance Team Leader

• Electrical maintenance experience gained within an industrial, marine, defence, engineering, manufacturing, or similar setting.
• Knowledge of safe systems of work, including areas such as working at height and confined spaces.
• Experience developing, mentoring, and supporting team members.
• Good information technology skills, including the use of Microsoft Office applications.

Qualifications for the Electrical Maintenance Team Leader

• Level 3 electrical qualification

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 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 [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: 10/11/2026