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Job Title: Welder
Location: Richmond, North Yorkshire
Compensation: £30,769 - £31,289 Dependent on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF75461
Build, repair and restore the vehicles that help keep our armed forces mission ready.
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 Catterick, near Richmond, North Yorkshire.
The role
As a Welder, you'll play a crucial role in the refurbishment, repair, and maintenance of heavy military vehicles and equipment that support the UK's defence capability. This is an opportunity to put your welding and fabrication expertise to work on complex engineering projects where the quality of your craftsmanship has a direct impact on operational readiness and safety.
Day-to-day you'll be required to:
- Perform MIG, TIG, Arc, and Oxy-Acetylene welding activities on heavy vehicles and equipment.
- Carry out fabrication, repair, grinding, blasting, and finishing tasks to the required technical standards.
- Inspect equipment and identifying defects, damage, or repair requirements.
- Operate workshop equipment and tools safely, including lifting and handling equipment where authorised.
- Maintain accurate job records while following quality, safety, and engineering procedures.
The role is based onsite at Catterick, and the set working times are Monday to Friday, totalling 37 hours per week.
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Essential experience of the Welder:
- Experience carrying out high-quality MIG, TIG, or Arc welding activities.
- Experience working within a heavy engineering, manufacturing, defence, automotive, or industrial environment.
- Experience interpreting technical instructions, engineering drawings, or job specifications.
- Experience completing fabrication and repair work to high quality standards.
- Experience working safely within a workshop or production environment.
Qualifications for the Welder:
- Level 3 qualification in Welding (RQF/NVQ Level 3 or equivalent).
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.
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 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
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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: 09/09/2026
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