Combat Systems Multi Skilled Operative
// Role Summary
Join Babcock as a Combat Systems Multi Skilled Operative at HMNB Clyde, supporting the Royal Navy's vital mission by maintaining critical defence capabilities.
// Key Responsibilities
- Support engineering teams in maintaining and enhancing fleet assets.
- Assist with defect identification and rectification.
- Ensure compliance with health, safety, and environmental procedures.
- Manage work equipment control, issue, and return.
- Contribute to productivity and operational performance improvements.
// Role Specification
About the Role
As a Combat Systems Multi Skilled Operative, you will play a crucial role in supporting Fleet Engineering teams, ensuring the maintenance and enhancement of critical defence capabilities. Working within one of the UK's most important naval bases, you will help guarantee that submarines, surface vessels, and key infrastructure remain safe, available, and operational.
This is an exciting opportunity to build a rewarding career in defence engineering, collaborating with highly skilled professionals in a dynamic environment. Your contribution will directly support national security and offer the chance to develop a broad range of technical, operational, and maintenance skills.
Day-to-day responsibilities include:
- Supporting engineering teams to deliver planned preventative maintenance activities across fleet assets.
- Assisting with the identification and rectification of equipment defects, system issues, and engineering alterations.
- Maintaining compliance with health, safety, and environmental requirements, safe systems of work, and control of work procedures.
- Managing the control, issue, and return of work equipment required for engineering activities.
- Contributing ideas and improvements to enhance productivity, efficiency, and operational performance.
Essential Experience:
- Experience supporting engineering, maintenance, or fleet operations environments.
- Experience using work equipment associated with engineering activities, such as scaffolding, lifting operations, or materials handling equipment.
- Knowledge of manual handling procedures and safe working practices.
- Experience working with Risk Assessments, COSHH, and Safe Systems of Work.
- Experience controlling, issuing, and managing work equipment in a regulated environment.
Qualifications:
- Confined Spaces for Competent Persons certification.
- Occasional Climber / Working at Height qualification.
- Full UK Driving Licence (Category B).
- RYA Level 2 Powerboat qualification.
- Slinging Signaller N402S qualification.
Security Clearance:
The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who can achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.