Welder - Automotive

Job Title: Welder
Location: Wareham, Dorset
Compensation: £28,924 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF56506

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 Welder at our Bovington site.

The role
As a Welder, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll be part of a team who refurbish and repair the British Army's fleet of vehicles and equipment.

Day to day, you'll work on Land Rovers, heavy trucks, protective mobility fleet such as ridgebacks and wolf hounds. You'll inspect and assess equipment for welding requirements as a lot of work is on corrosion due to the age of vehicles, prepare equipment for welding by grinding, sanding and blasting and use various welding techniques to repair the damage.

• Carry out work to the required standard and specification as detailed on the job card in accordance with the customer requirements, current regulations, local instructions, processes and other approved technical publications
• Perform weld tasks to the defined standards in line with skills and competency
• Ensure all job transactions are accurately recorded and carried out in accordance with current ERP processes and that work completed and time taken to complete the job is submitted daily to the department / section Supervisor
• Completion of task / recording sheers / reports to current standards

This role is full time working 37-hours per week and will be based at our Bovington site.

Essential experience of the Welder:

• Fabricator and coded welding experience is desirable however we value difference and we don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you have a minimum Level 3-NQV in welding and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Qualifications for the Welder:

• NVQ Level 3 in welding any area

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• 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 most 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

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock International have helped to defend nations, protect communities, and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. 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: 20/03/24