Defence jobs in United Kingdom

Job Title: Delivery Coordinator Scaffolding

Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute

Lead safe, smart scaffolding that keeps critical defence engineering moving.

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 Delivery Coordinator Scaffolding at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.

As a Delivery Coordinator Scaffolding, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll coordinate safe, efficient scaffold solutions across a complex engineering environment - supporting vital projects that protect national security and the communities we serve. It’s a role where your leadership and planning skills directly enable safe working at height, enhance project delivery, and accelerate your own development in a dynamic, high‑impact sector spanning defence, aerospace and engineering.

Day‑to‑day you’ll be required to:

• Coordinate scaffold delivery, alterations and removals to meet programme milestones and safety standards.
• Lead and mentor advanced scaffolders and contractors, driving a positive safety culture and quality outcomes.
• Plan and sequence work at height activities, aligning resources and documentation for smooth execution.
• Collaborate with Fleet Engineering departments, infrastructure teams, ship staff and project managers.
• Track progress and use IT systems to report status, risks and completions clearly and consistently.

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.

• Leadership experience in a scaffolding or industrial setting.
• Good IT skills for scheduling, documentation and reporting.
• Specialism in working at height and scaffold solutions within engineering environments.

• CISRS Advanced Gold Card
• Leadership training or a recognised management certificate - advantageous

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).

• 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.

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 emailcareers@babcockinternational.com 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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