Towed Array and Torpedo Loading Specialist

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Helensburgh; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A global defense contractor is seeking a Towed Array and Torpedo Loading Specialist to support the Royal Navy’s fleet at HMNB Clyde Faslane. You will lead the deployment and handling of tactical explosives, ensuring operational readiness. Ideal candidates have an engineering background and proven management experience. This is a full-time position requiring the ability to work under pressure with safety protocols.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Annual health check and nutritional consultations

Employee share scheme

10-days special paid leave for reservists

Holiday Trading benefits

Paid leave for volunteering work

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Must maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance.
• Experience in leading multidisciplinary teams is essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead the deployment and recovery of submarine towed array systems.
• Manage the safety and coordination of explosives handling.
• Diagnose faults and maintain weapon handling equipment.

Skills

Engineering HNC (or equivalent)

Experience working with ships or submarines

Proven management experience

Strong communication skills

Ordnance, Munitions and Explosives experience

Education

Recognised engineering apprenticeship or equivalent

HNC in a relevant engineering discipline

Job description

Towed Array and Torpedo Loading Specialist

Location: Faslane, Helensburgh, GB, G84 8HL

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Job Title: Towed Array and Torpedo Loading Specialist

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF67967

Shape the Future of Defence Engineering

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 Towed Array and Torpedo Loading Specialist at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.

The role

As a Towed Array and Torpedo Loading Specialist, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be at the heart of operations that directly support the Royal Navy’s submarine fleet. This is a hands-on, high-impact role where you’ll coordinate and supervise the embarkation and disembarkation of tactical explosive ordnance and lead the deployment and recovery of towed array systems. Your work will help ensure mission readiness and operational excellence, while advancing your own career in defence engineering.

Day-to-day you’ll be:

• Leading the deployment and recovery of submarine towed array systems
• Managing the safety and coordination of explosives handling on jetties
• Diagnosing faults and conducting maintenance on weapon handling and array equipment
• Producing Safe Systems of Work for all operational activities
• Supervising a skilled team to ensure safe and effective operations

This role is full time, 36 hours per week Monday to Thursday 07:15 – 16:45 and is based on site at HMNB Clyde Faslane. Due to the nature of the role, you’ll be expected to deploy for up to two weeks at a time, approximately three to four times per year.

Essential experience of the Towed Array and Torpedo Loading Specialist

• Engineering HNC (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline, with demonstrable experience
• Experience working with ships or submarines
• Proven management experience, including leading multidisciplinary teams
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across functions
• Ordnance, Munitions and Explosives experience is desirable but not essential

Qualifications for the Towed Array and Torpedo Loading Specialist

• Recognised engineering apprenticeship or equivalent
• HNC in a relevant engineering discipline or equivalent

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

• 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 [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.

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