Electrical Instrumentation Technician
Listed on 2026-09-26
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Trades / Skilled Labor
Maintenance Technician / Mechanic, Field/Service Technician
Job Title:
Electrical Instrumentation Technician
Location:
Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation: £40,967 + Benefits
Role Type:
Full time / Permanent
Role
Help keep critical defence capabilities operating at their best
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 Electrical Instrumentation Technician at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.
The roleAs aElectrical Instrumentation Technician, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll play a vital role in supporting one of the UK's most important maritime defence establishments. Working with specialist Test, Measurement and Diagnostic Equipment (TMDE), you'll help ensure critical systems remain accurate, reliable and ready to support defence operations.
Day-to-day, you'll be required to:
- Carrying out calibration, adjustment, fault-finding and repair activities on a wide range of test, measurement and diagnostic equipment.
- Delivering technical work packages safely, accurately and in line with quality, cost and schedule requirements.
- Completing risk assessments and applying safety, quality and environmental standards across all activities.
- Developing and maintaining calibration procedures, checklists and technical documentation for new and existing equipment.
- Performing electrical testing and inspection activities to maintain equipment compliance, reliability and operational readiness.
This role is full time, 36 hours per week and is based on site at HMNB Clyde Faslane.
Essential experience of the Electrical Instrumentation Technician- Proven experience fault-finding, testing and maintaining electrical or electronic systems within an engineering environment.
- Experience working to strict safety, quality and environmental standards.
- Ability to deliver technical tasks and work packages to agreed timescales and performance targets.
- Experience producing, interpreting or following technical documentation, procedures and inspection records.
- Ideally, experience in the calibration, diagnosis and repair of Test, Measurement and Diagnostic Equipment, although candidates with an electrical engineering background are encouraged to apply as training can be provided.
- Recognised Electrical or Electronics Apprenticeship
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 - ().
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 Digi Care+
- 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
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…
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