Welder

Babcock International; Rosyth; On-site; GBP 32,000 - 42,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Holiday allowance

Pension and life assurance

Digital GP

Employee shopping portal

Professional fees paid

Special paid leave for Reservists

Holiday trading

Job summary

Babcock International is recruiting a Welder for its Rosyth site to support major defence projects, including submarine components and missile tube assemblies. This hands‑on role focuses on complex fabrication and precision welding within a regulated environment, offering long‑term career development.

You will work a 39‑hour week on a rotational 12‑hour day/night shift, using a range of welding processes and subject to SC security clearance requirements.

Qualifications

• Experience using welding processes (MIG, MAG, TIG, MMA, Tip‑Tig or pulsed GMAW‑P).
• Ability to set up welding equipment and prepare accessories.
• Proven structural welding experience.
• Experience in highly regulated industries such as naval/defence or energy.

Responsibilities

• Perform welding activities to exact quality standards.
• Set up and maintain welding equipment per procedures.
• Conduct visual weld inspections to meet specifications.
• Monitor temperatures and manage pre‑heating activities.
• Support continuous improvement by reporting faults.

Skills

MIG

MAG

TIG

MMA

Tip‑Tig

Pulsed GMAW‑P

Education

Level 3 Welder

Job description

Role ID: SF75925

Build the Future of Naval Defence Through Expert Welding

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Welder at our Rosyth site.

Job Title: Welder

Location: Rosyth, Fife

Compensation: Competitive + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF75925

Build the Future of Naval Defence Through Expert Welding

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Welder at our Rosyth site. This is an exciting opportunity to work on one of the UK's most important defence programmes. You'll contribute to the manufacture of tactical missile tube assemblies for the Common Missile Compartment programme, supporting both the UK Successor and US Ohio Class replacement submarine projects. Joining Babcock means becoming part of a skilled team delivering work that directly supports national security while developing your expertise in a highly regulated, advanced engineering environment.

The role

As a Welder, you'll play a critical role in delivering complex fabrication and welding activities that support the Royal Navy's future submarine capability. This is a hands‑on opportunity to work on technically demanding projects using advanced welding techniques while building a long‑term career with a leading international defence, aerospace and engineering organisation.

Day‑to‑day, you’ll be required to:

• Performing welding activities using a range of specialist welding processes to exact quality standards.
• Operating, setting up and maintaining welding equipment in accordance with approved procedures.
• Conducting visual inspections to ensure welds meet project and quality specifications.
• Monitoring temperatures using digital and thermal equipment and managing pre‑heating activities.
• Supporting continuous improvement by completing equipment checks and reporting faults when identified.

You’ll work 39 hours per week at our Rosyth site on a rotational shift pattern of 12-hour day and night shifts.

Essential experience of the Welder

• Experience using one or more welding processes including MIG, MAG, TIG, MMA, Tip‑Tig or pulsed GMAW‑P.
• Ability to carry out welding equipment set‑up procedures and prepare associated accessories.
• Proven structural welding experience.
• Experience working within highly regulated industries such as marine, defence, energy or oil and gas.
• Demonstrable commitment to quality, safety and technical excellence.

Qualifications for the Welder

• Level 3 qualified Welder, indentured apprenticeship in welding, or equivalent extensive industry experience.

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 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 is happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 19/10/2026

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