Job Description

Job Title: Weld Training Officer
Location: Plymouth, Devon
Compensation: 40,098 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF69747
Shape the Future of Skilled Welding
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 Weld Training Officer at our Devonport Royal Dockyard site.
The role
As a Weld Training Officer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll deliver training and qualifications to apprentices, experienced welders, and future talent, ensuring compliance with ISO, ASME, and DefStan standards.
Day-to-day, you'll be central to developing the next generation of highly skilled welders who support critical defence projects across surface fleet, submarine platforms, and site facilities.

• Overseeing the full welder training and qualification process.
• Conducting visual weld inspections and coordinating NDE and destructive testing.
• Developing and delivering training programmes across multiple welding processes.
• Ensuring all documentation meets quality and compliance standards.
• Supporting welders at all levels to achieve certification and excellence.

This role is full time, 35 hours per week and is based on site at Devonport Royal Dockyard.
Essential experience of the Weld Training Officer

• Strong knowledge of welding processes: MMA, FCAW, MIG/MAG, and TIG.
• Excellent communication skills and computer literacy.
• Meticulous attention to detail when presenting technical information.
• Sound understanding of welding techniques and associated challenges.
• Knowledge of quality control and documentation requirements.

Qualifications for the Weld Training Officer

• City & Guilds Craft Apprenticeship in Fabrication/Engineering or equivalent.
• Willingness to undertake further training, including CSWTO certification.
• Commitment to completing CSWIP Weld Instructor courses and exams.
• CSWIP 3.0 Visual Weld Inspection - Desirable.

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
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. 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
• 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 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: 24/11/2025
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Skills Required