Career Opportunities: Rigger (60586)

Job Title:              Rigger
Location:              Plymouth, Devon 
Compensation:    £34,002.00 + Benefits
Role Type:           Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:               SF60586

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 Rigger at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.

The role
As a Rigger, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary where you’ll manufacture items to assist in keeping our world safe.

Day-to-day, you’ll carry out surveying, measuring, manufacturing, and testing rigging items.

• Required to fit parafoils and safety nets onboard vessels.
• Install halyards and dressing lines, operate winches and davits.
• Use sewing machines and basic sail making. 
• Ability to work on arrangement / isometric drawings.
• Establish and execute lifting operations including complex and critical task operations.
• Carry out rigging activities.

This position involves working at height. Candidates must be able to work safely and perform tasks at varying heights.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

Essential experience of the Rigger:

• To have a sound understanding of the use of bottle screws, shackles, thimbles and blocks.
• To be able to work at height.

Qualifications for the Rigger:
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.

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 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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International 
For over a century Babcock  has 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. 

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: 04/12/2024

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