Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: £33,900 – £48,800 depending on experience + benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74743
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. As a First Line Manager Welder at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site, you will play a vital role within our Factory team, supporting critical submarine maintenance programmes, Continuous At Sea Deterrent operations and surface ship activities. This is an opportunity to combine your welding expertise, leadership skills and quality focus to help deliver some of the UK’s most important defence engineering projects.
The role
Day‑to‑day, you’ll support operational delivery, maintain welding standards, and champion a right‑first‑time culture. You’ll help develop workforce capability, drive continuous improvement and ensure welding activities are carried out safely, efficiently and to the highest quality standards.
- Managing welder qualifications, competency records and future qualification requirements across the team.
- Leading health and safety training compliance, quality assurance activities and right‑first‑time welding initiatives.
- Controlling welding equipment, consumables and welding documentation to ensure compliance and readiness.
- Conducting visual weld inspections and coordinating quality assurance, quality control and non‑destructive testing inspections.
- Driving continuous improvement by analysing performance trends, improving traceability and supporting innovation projects.
This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential Experience
- At least five years relevant experience in an engineering, manufacturing or technical environment.
- Strong knowledge of welding processes, including plate and pipe welding techniques.
- Sound understanding of factory manufacturing and production processes.
- Ability to communicate effectively with customers, senior stakeholders and operational teams.
- Experience using digital systems and engineering documentation within a production environment.
Qualifications
- HNC or equivalent qualification in an Engineering or Technical discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
- Additional welding, quality assurance or manufacturing qualifications.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Many positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. Eligibility may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, citizenship and residency. 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 receive 10 days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading allows employees to buy additional leave or sell up to one working week of annual leave (February–March annually)
- ‘Be Kind Day’ enables one paid day’s leave per year for volunteering work with a chosen charity
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 careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We are happy to discuss flexible working arrangements.
Closing date: 17/07/2026
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