Lifting Operations Slinger

Job Title:                     Lifting Operations Slinger

Location:                     Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute

Compensation:           £29,658 to £35,169 Depending on Experience

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF74930

Help keep the Royal Navy mission-ready through safe, specialist lifting operations.

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

This is an exciting opportunity to join a highly skilled team supporting one of the United Kingdom’s most important naval bases. Working at the heart of fleet engineering operations, you'll help ensure critical maintenance, repairs and upgrades are completed safely and efficiently. Every lift you support contributes to the operational readiness of the Royal Navy, making this a rewarding role with real purpose, excellent career development opportunities and the chance to develop specialist skills within the defence engineering sector.

The role

As a Lifting Operations Slinger, you'll provide multi-skilled slinging and lifting operations support across HMNB Clyde, ensuring the safe movement of equipment, materials and components that are essential to fleet engineering activities. Working within a safety-focused environment, you'll collaborate with engineering teams and lifting specialists to deliver critical operational objectives while maintaining the highest standards of compliance and professionalism.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Supporting lifting activities that enable planned maintenance and engineering work across the fleet.
• Assisting with the movement of loads on and around vessels, jetties and operational areas.
• Following safe systems of work, risk assessments and health and safety procedures at all times.
• Collaborating with Lift Supervisors and engineering teams to deliver safe and efficient lifting operations.
• Identifying opportunities to improve processes, safety and productivity within lifting activities.

This is a full-time, permanent position based at HMNB Clyde. This role is 36 hours per week, Monday to Thursday.

Essential experience of the Lifting Operations Slinger:

• Experience carrying out slinging and load movement operations on or around vessels.
• Knowledge of fleet engineering activities, equipment and operational procedures.
• Experience of manual handling within industrial, engineering or maritime environments.
• Experience working at height safely and effectively.
• Understanding of risk assessments, safe systems of work and health and safety compliance.

Qualifications for the Lifting Operations Slinger:

• SVQ Level 2 in Controlling Lifting Operations: Slinger/Signaller.
• Slinging Signaller certification (N402S).
• Rigging/Fleeting Slinging certification (N047).

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK National who is 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 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 UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement. There is an annual Window to request this benefit. ‘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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

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: 31/07/2026

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