Electrician

Nuclear Inst; Guildford, Camberley; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP and health checks

Employee shopping portal

Professional fees paid

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock is seeking an Electrician to join our team in Camberley, Hampshire. You will perform electrical testing, inspection and maintenance across estate systems, diagnose faults and work with engineers to deliver safe, reliable operations.

The role includes on-call duties after probation, with enhanced pay and a company van provided. The position demands compliance with safety standards, BPSS clearance, and driving a manual vehicle.

Qualifications

• Electrical inspection and testing certification (2391) required.
• Latest wiring regulations qualification (BS7671) — 18th Edition (17th Edition accepted, with funded pathway to 18th Edition).
• Level 3 electrical qualification is required.
• Manual driving licence is required.

Responsibilities

• Provide a full programme of electrical testing, inspection and maintenance across estate-wide systems.
• Diagnose electrical faults and coordinate repairs with maintenance colleagues.
• Support predictive maintenance activities in line with asset management and lifecycle plans.
• Identify opportunities to improve electrical services and implement cost‑effective solutions.
• Maintain accurate inventory levels for electrical components and supplies.

Education

Electrical inspection and testing certification (2391)

BS7671 18th Edition qualification

Level 3 electrical qualification

Manual driving licence

Job description

Job Title: Electrician

Location: Camberley, Hampshire

Compensation: From £40,383 Dependent on Experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76119

Power the future of defence engineering

The role

As an Electrician, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll play a vital role in ensuring the reliability, safety and performance of electrical systems that support essential military training and estate operations. This is meaningful work with real-world impact — your expertise will help keep critical infrastructure running safely, while your career grows in a dynamic engineering environment.

Day-to-day, you’ll be:

• Providing a full programme of electrical testing, inspection and maintenance across estate-wide systems.
• Diagnosing electrical faults and coordinating effective repairs alongside maintenance colleagues.
• Supporting predictive maintenance activities in line with asset management and lifecycle plans.
• Identifying opportunities to improve electrical services and implementing cost‑effective solutions.
• Maintaining accurate inventory levels for electrical components and supplies.

Please note that this position involves manual work. This could include lifting, bending, using tools or standing for extended periods of time.

This is a full-time role, totalling 40 hours per week, based at Minley. Working Monday to Thursday, 8am–4:30pm, and Friday, 8am–4pm. Participation in an on‑call rota will be required after six months, with additional pay and overtime rates.

• On‑call allowance: £2,520 per year after completing probation, based on 12 weeks of on‑call cover.
  Callout payments are paid separately, with each callout paid at a minimum of 4 hours.
• Company van provided, including use for commuting to and from work with fuel costs covered

Overtime rates:

• Time and a half on weekdays and Saturdays
• Double time on Sundays

Essential experience of the Electrician:

• Experience working as an electrician within a maintenance or technical environment.
• Ability to work independently and manage your own workload.
• Strong diagnostic and problem‑solving skills.
• Comfortable collaborating with colleagues across engineering and maintenance teams.
• A proactive approach to safety, compliance and continuous improvement.

Qualifications for the Electrician:

• Electrical inspection and testing certification (2391).
• Latest wiring regulations qualification (BS7671) — 18th Edition (17th Edition accepted, with funded pathway to 18th Edition).
• Level 3 electrical qualification.
• Manual driving licence.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) 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: 30/09/2026