Technical Author

Babcock International; Helensburgh; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading engineering firm is seeking a Technical Author to transform complex maintenance requirements into clear procedures. Based in Helensburgh, this hybrid role offers a chance to enhance your skills while supporting the Royal Navy's operations. Candidates should have strong electrical engineering experience, excellent communication skills, and relevant qualifications. The position includes a competitive salary of up to £49,915, generous benefits, and significant professional growth opportunities.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP and health consultations

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Volunteering leave

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience in electrical engineering and/or maintenance is essential.
• Experience with maintenance instructions and/or operating procedures is required.
• Ability to engage with stakeholders at various levels is important.

Responsibilities

• Author clear maintenance and operating procedures.
• Collaborate with engineers and specialists to capture accurate details.
• Continuously improve procedures based on feedback.

Skills

Electrical engineering experience

Strong written and verbal communication

Strong IT skills

Stakeholder liaison

Education

HNC in a relevant discipline

Completed recognized apprenticeship

City & Guilds 18th Edition Wiring Regulations

City & Guilds Level 3 – Inspection & Testing

Tools

MS Office

Job description

Job Title: Technical Author

Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute

Compensation: Up to £49,915 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF70263

Write with purpose. Engineer with impact. Help keep the Royal Navy mission ‑ready.

About Us

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Electrical Technical Author at HM Naval Base Clyde (Faslane), near Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute. We deliver highly specialist engineering and infrastructure support at HMNB Clyde in partnership with the Ministry of Defence and the Royal Navy — work that underpins national defence and the availability of critical assets.

The role

As an Electrical Technical Author, you’ll transform complex maintenance and operating requirements into clear, concise procedures that technicians rely on every day. Your work will help ensure safe, compliant, planned and preventative maintenance across critical infrastructure — including nuclear safety implicated systems — supporting the Royal Navy’s operations and contributing to public protection. It’s a role with real purpose, offering breadth, responsibility and progression as you grow your technical writing, stakeholder engagement and engineering skills within a high‑performing team.

Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:

• Author clear electrical maintenance and operating procedures for planned and preventative maintenance.
• Collaborate with maintenance engineers, design engineers, regulatory systems specialists and Health & Safety to capture the right steps, tools and controls.
• Liaise with equipment manufacturers and contractors to verify technical detail and service information.
• Ensure documentation meets applicable standards and supports safe, right‑first‑time execution.
• Continuously review and improve procedures based on feedback, audits and lessons learned.

You’ll be working full-time, 36 hours per week, and is a hybrid role with a mixture of working from home and working based on site at our HMNB Clyde site.

Essential experience of the Technical Author:

• Proven experience in electrical engineering and/or electrical maintenance.
• Hands‑on use of maintenance instructions and/or operating procedures.
• Ability to liaise with stakeholders at all levels.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong IT skills (authoring tools and MS Office).

Qualifications for the Infrastructure Technical Author:

• Completed a recognised apprenticeship (electrical or closely related).
• HNC (or higher) in a relevant discipline.
• City & Guilds 18th Edition Wiring Regulations.
• City & Guilds Level 3 — Inspection & Testing (or equivalent).

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 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.

Closing Date: 19/01/2026

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