Maintenance Electrician

weServed; Helensburgh; On-site; GBP 37,000 - 45,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched pension with life assurance

Digital GP and health checks

Employee shopping portal

Payment of professional fees

10 days special leave for Reservists

Holiday Trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock is recruiting a Maintenance Electrician to support HM Naval Base Clyde, Helensburgh, on a full-time basis. The role involves maintaining critical electrical systems, diagnosing faults, and performing repairs in a secure defence environment.

You will work 36 hours per week on site, applying safety standards and contributing to continuous improvement while preparing documentation and maintaining records for compliance.

Qualifications

• Essential experience of the Maintenance Electrician in industrial/engineering environments.
• Applying electrical regulations, standards and safe working practices.
• Conducting fault finding, maintenance and repair of electrical equipment and infrastructure.
• Interpreting and completing maintenance documentation accurately.
• Working with COSHH requirements and health, safety and environmental procedures.

Responsibilities

• Carry out planned preventative maintenance activities to support business objectives and maximise equipment availability.
• Identifying, diagnosing and rectifying electrical system defects, equipment faults and infrastructure issues.
• Repairing and maintaining electrical installations, including lighting systems, sockets and associated equipment.
• Working in accordance with health and safety legislation, safe systems of work and site procedures.
• Supporting continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance processes, productivity and operational performance.

Skills

Electrical maintenance

Fault finding

Reading maintenance docs

COSHH awareness

Electrical safety

Education

SVQ Level 3 in Electrical Fitting

Job description

Job Title: Maintenance Electrician

Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute

Compensation: £40,967

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF73707

Power vital infrastructure that helps keep the UK safe and secure.

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Maintenance Electrician at HM Naval Base Clyde, near Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute.

This is your opportunity to join a highly skilled estates maintenance team supporting one of the UK's most important defence facilities. Working within a dynamic engineering environment, you'll help maintain essential electrical systems and infrastructure that support national security operations. Whether you're carrying out preventative maintenance, fault finding, or repairing critical equipment, your expertise will make a real difference every day while providing excellent opportunities to develop your career within a leading international engineering organisation.

The role

As an Maintenance Electrician, you'll carry out electrical maintenance activities across a diverse range of estates equipment and infrastructure. No two days are the same. You'll be involved in everything from routine maintenance and repairs to more complex electrical tasks that may span several days or weeks. Working alongside experienced engineering professionals, you'll play an integral role in ensuring facilities remain safe, operational, and fit for purpose.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Carry out planned preventative maintenance activities to support business objectives and maximise equipment availability.
• Identifying, diagnosing and rectifying electrical system defects, equipment faults and infrastructure issues.
• Repairing and maintaining electrical installations, including lighting systems, sockets and associated equipment.
• Working in accordance with health and safety legislation, safe systems of work and site procedures.
• Supporting continuous improvement by identifying opportunities to enhance processes, productivity and operational performance.

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

Essential experience of the Maintenance Electrician:

• Working with electrical systems, equipment and maintenance activities within an industrial, engineering, manufacturing, construction, defence, aviation, marine or similar environment.
• Applying electrical regulations, standards and safe working practices.
• Conducting fault finding, maintenance and repair of electrical equipment and infrastructure.
• Interpreting and completing maintenance documentation and records accurately.
• Working with COSHH requirements and health, safety and environmental procedures.

Qualifications for the Maintenance Electrician:

• SVQ Level 3 in Electrical Fitting or equivalent electrical qualification.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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 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: 05/10/2026