Welder

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Welder at Ashton, near Bristol, Gloucestershire. This is an exciting opportunity to join a world-leading team specialising in high-integrity welding, supporting critical defence programmes that help protect national security., As a Welder, you'll be part of our Mission Systems Production team, delivering complex welding solutions for high-strength steel assemblies used in the defence sector. Working within a highly skilled and supportive team, you'll contribute to the manufacture of specialist equipment where quality, precision and safety are paramount. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop your expertise in advanced welding techniques, work on projects with real-world impact, and build a long-term career within one of the UK's leading engineering and defence organisations. Day-to-day, you'll be:

• Welding of large high strength quenched and tempered Steel assemblies for the defence industry.
• Welding of assemblies used for lifting and handling in the defence industry.
• Welds are subject to full NDT including volumetric Ultrasonic and radiographic examination.
• Welding using manual, mechanised and automatic (Robotic) welding processes
This role is full time, 36 hours per week and is based at Aston Vale, Bristol. Shift patterns for this role are 06:15 to 14:15 or 14:00 to 21:00, alternating weekly, with a shift allowance payable.


• Time served apprenticeship or similar in welding/fabrication
• Evidence of previously held coding's to recognised European/American standards and working to high-quality standards.
• Capable of reading complex fabrication drawings.
• Experience of positional welding using FCAW and solid Wire pulse MAG is essential.
• Experience of welding in the defence industry is desirable., We value difference and don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you., The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and Security Check (SC) clearance for this role.
  
  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.

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 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• '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
• Flexible working - we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment