Waterfront Mechanical Team Leader
Job Title: Waterfront Mechanical Team Leader
Location: Helensburgh Argyll and Bute
Compensation: £42,000 - £46,500 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74418
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 Waterfront Mechanical Team Leader at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site.
The role
As a Waterfront Mechanical Team Leader, you'll play a vital leadership role in supporting the safe and effective delivery of submarine maintenance activities at HMNB Clyde. Working at the heart of one of the UK's most important defence facilities, you'll support the Waterfront Engineering Manager in leading engineering activities, managing specialist teams, and ensuring critical waterfront systems remain available and operational.
Day-to-day, you'll have an exciting opportunity to combine your engineering expertise with people leadership, helping to deliver work that directly contributes to national security. You'll work alongside highly skilled colleagues, collaborate with key stakeholders, and build a rewarding career within a world-leading engineering and defence organisation.
- Leading and managing the Waterfront Systems team, including a team of Mechanical Fitters.
- Supporting the Waterfront Facility Manager to maximise resource utilisation and operational effectiveness.
- Ensuring engineering activities are delivered safely, on time, to specification and within agreed cost, quality and delivery targets.
- Implementing company safety, quality and environmental standards and promoting safe working practices throughout the operation.
- Identifying, investigating and resolving waterfront engineering issues to maintain system availability and performance.
This role is full time, 36 hours per week and is based on site at HMNB Clyde Faslane.
Essential experience of the Waterfront Mechanical Team Leader
- Supervisory experience gained within a maintenance, repair or engineering environment.
- Mechanical maintenance experience within an industrial, marine, manufacturing or engineering setting.
- Knowledge of safe systems of work, including working at height and confined space activities.
- Experience developing, mentoring and supporting engineering teams.
- Good information technology skills, including Microsoft Office applications.
Qualifications for the Waterfront Mechanical Team Leader
- Recognised SVQ Level 3 Mechanical Apprenticeship or equivalent qualification
- HNC or above in a Mechanical Engineering discipline
- Leadership or management qualification is desirable
- IOSH Managing Safely certification is desirable
Security Clearance
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).
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 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
Babcock
We're Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.
Here, you'll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we're building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.
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'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.
Closing date: 07/09/2026
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