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Helensburgh, GB, G84 8HL

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Job Title:
Plumber

Location:
Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute

Role Type:
Full time / Permanent

Role

Help maintain the infrastructure that supports the safety and security of the nation.

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Plumber at HM Naval Base Clyde, near Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Naval Nuclear Clyde team, supporting critical estate infrastructure within one of the UK's most important defence environments. You'll play a key role in ensuring essential plumbing systems remain safe, compliant and operational, directly contributing to the effectiveness of the facilities that support national security.

The role

As a Plumber, you'll undertake a wide range of plumbing activities across estate systems and equipment, helping to maintain safe, reliable and efficient facilities. This is a hands-on role where your expertise will make a real difference, ensuring planned maintenance is completed to a high standard while identifying and resolving faults before they impact operations. You'll have the opportunity to develop your skills within a dynamic engineering environment while supporting work that matters.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Carrying out planned preventative maintenance activities across estate plumbing systems and equipment.
• Identifying, diagnosing and rectifying system defects, faults and alterations.
• Ensuring all work is completed in accordance with current procedures, quality standards and timescales.
• Working safely in compliance with health and safety legislation, safe systems of work and control of work processes.
• Contributing improvement ideas to enhance productivity, efficiency and system performance.

This role is 40 hours per week, based at HM Naval Base Clyde. Set working times are Monday to Friday. This is a full-time onsite role.

Essential experience of the Plumber:

• Experience working on commercial or industrial plumbing systems and associated maintenance activities.
• Experience in Legionella disinfection of water supply systems within buildings.
• Knowledge of Legionellosis control within hot and cold-water systems.
• Experience undertaking water systems hazard identification and risk assessments.
• Understanding of relevant health, safety and compliance requirements, including manual handling practices.

Qualifications for the Plumber:

• Recognised Plumbing Apprenticeship or equivalent qualification.
• Valid UK Driving Licence.
• Confined Space Competent Person certification.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is 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 -  () .

What we offer

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva Digi Care+
• 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. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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.

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