Fabricator

Babcock International Group; Plymouth; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 51,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an innovative firm as a Fabricator, where you'll engage in exciting engineering projects supporting submarine programs. This role offers the chance to work on diverse platforms, performing structural repairs and fabricating modules in various metals. With a commitment to safety and technical excellence, your contributions will play a vital role in delivering complex engineering solutions. Enjoy a competitive salary, generous benefits, and opportunities for professional development in a supportive environment that values inclusivity and flexible working arrangements.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

10-days special paid leave for reservists

Holiday Trading benefit

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Ability to read and interpret engineering drawings and work instructions.
• Competent in using workshop tools and machinery specific to fabrication.

Responsibilities

• Manufacture structural modules and fabricate structures in various metals.
• Support Submarine programmes by undertaking structural repairs and alterations.

Skills

Reading engineering drawings

Use of workshop tools and machinery

Marine engineering experience

Working in a marine engineering environment

Education

Time served apprentice in marine engineering

Indentured Apprenticeship

Level 3 Modern Apprenticeship in fabrication

Level 3 Engineering qualification

Tools

General workshop tools

Job description

Job Title: Fabricator

Location: Plymouth, Devon + Relocation Assistance

Compensation: £35,530 + Benefits - Gross OTE £50,882

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF56075

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 Fabricator at our Devonport site.

The role

As a Fabricator, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. We have several exciting opportunities to support the Submarine programmes here at Babcock International. This could see you working on warships, submarines or within our factories supporting delivering these complex engineering projects.

Day to day, you’ll work on a wide variety of platforms undertaking structural repairs and alterations. Working to engineering drawings and technical specifications, you’ll manufacture structural modules, fabricate and alter structures in a variety of metals and thickness.

If you can bring technical skills and a safe working attitude, then we can offer you the opportunity to work on some of the most exciting engineering projects this country has to offer.

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

There is an opportunity for Optimised Working Patterns (OWP) within this role. OWP is a temporary variation to your standard terms and condition that commits you to support 7-day working arrangements. For full details of the patterns, pay and durations, this can be found in the OWP 1 and OWP 2 agreements (available from hiring manager).

Primarily, it involves 4-week shift cycles consisting of either day/back shift or day/night shift. An example of the remuneration for these shifts is as follows:

Gross salary: £35,530
Gross OTE for core Dayshift/Backshift Pattern: £50,882

Essential Experience Of The Fabricator

• You will have the ability to read engineering drawings, to interpret work instructions and be competent in the use of general workshop tools and machinery specific to fabrication.
• Ideally, you will have worked in the marine engineering industry with experience of Royal Navy ships and submarines, Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessels or large commercial ships - although other relevant experience from other engineering sectors will be considered.
• Experience of working within marine engineering environment

Qualifications for the Fabricator:

• Time served apprentice within the field of marine engineering / naval engineering environment
• Indentured Apprenticeship relevant to the role
• Level 3 Modern Apprenticeship in a sheet metal, structural steel or fabrication related discipline
• Level 3 Engineering qualification relevant to the role

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.