Weapons Engineer

Babcock International; Helensburgh; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP and health consultations

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Special paid leave for reservists

Holiday Trading benefit

Be Kind Day for volunteering

Employee assistance programme

Job summary

A leading defense training organization in Helensburgh is seeking a Weapons Engineer to deliver training focused on Astute Class submarines. The role requires expertise in Tactical Weapons Engineering and experience in Weapons Handling. You will be responsible for training design, liaising with stakeholders, and ensuring compliance with safety policies. This full-time position offers excellent development opportunities and a comprehensive benefits package including a generous holiday allowance and a matched contribution pension scheme.

Qualifications

• Sound knowledge of submarine Tactical Weapons Engineering systems.
• Experience in Weapons Handling operations.
• Qualified Weapons System Board – CU3 certification.

Responsibilities

• Deliver classroom and simulator-based training for Astute Class submarines.
• Provide subject matter expertise to support training design.
• Support governance through reporting and documentation.
• Liaise with stakeholders for training queries.
• Ensure compliance with internal and external policies.

Skills

Sound knowledge of submarine Tactical Weapons Engineering systems

Experience in Weapons Handling operations

Education

Qualified Weapons System Board – Competent User Level 3 (CU3) certification

Job description

Overview

Job Title: Weapons Engineer
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF70944

Shape the Future of Defence Training

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Weapons Engineering Instructor at HMNB Clyde, near Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute.

Ready to take your career in a new direction? At Babcock, we value the deep expertise that comes from real world operational experience — and we offer a unique opportunity to channel that knowledge into a rewarding new path. As a Weapons Engineer (Weapons Handling), you’ll step away from front line duties and into a role where you’ll shape the next generation of Royal Navy personnel. Drawing on your specialist understanding of Astute Class submarine weapon systems, you’ll coach, guide and assess learners across a range of Weapons Electrical and Weapons Handling disciplines, while contributing your subject matter expertise to course development, technical change activity and wider Marine Training initiatives. If you’re ready to make a meaningful impact while advancing your own career, this could be the ideal next step.

Day-to-day you’ll be:

• Delivering classroom and simulator-based training, primarily focused on Astute Class submarines
• Providing subject matter expertise to support training design and review
• Supporting governance through reporting, documentation, and assurance
• Liaising with stakeholders and acting as a technical point of contact for training queries
• Maintaining safe systems of work and ensuring compliance with internal and external policies

The role is based onsite at HMNB Clyde, and the set working times are Monday to Thursday (08:00–16:30) and Friday (08:00–13:00), totalling 37 hours per week.

Essential experience

• Sound knowledge of submarine Tactical Weapons Engineering systems
• Experience in Weapons Handling operations

Qualifications

• Qualified Weapons System Board – Competent User Level 3 (CU3) certification

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.

Closing date: 02/02/2026