Multi Coded Welder

Location: Helensburgh, GB, G84 8HL

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Job Title: Multi Coded Welder

Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute

Compensation: £40,967

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF65269

Weld your future into something extraordinary

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

The role

As a Multi Coded Welder, you’ll be part of a highly skilled team supporting the Royal Navy’s fleet. You’ll carry out critical welding tasks on submarines and surface vessels, ensuring structural integrity and operational readiness. This is a hands-on role where your precision and expertise will directly contribute to national defence and maritime safety.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Delivering high-quality welds using MMA, Flux Core, and TIG techniques on pipework and structural components
• Identifying and rectifying defects in systems and manufacturing processes
• Enhancing welding processes and techniques to improve efficiency and quality
• Complying with Health & Safety regulations and Safe Systems of Work
• Collaborating with a multi-skilled team to support routine and emergent welding activities.

This is a full-time role, working 36 hours per week, based on site at Clyde.

Essential experience of the Multi Coded Welder:

• Extensive experience as a multi-coded welder, proficient in MMA, Flux Core, and TIG
• Strong background in pipework and structural coding
• Familiarity with welds subject to non-destructive and destructive testing
• Experience working in a highly regulated environment.

Qualifications for the Multi Coded Welder:

• A recognised fabrication/welding Apprenticeship to at least N/SVQ Level 3.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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 29,000 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: 18/11/2026

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