Description : Trainee Riggers. Company : Babcock International. Location : Plymouth PL1

Trainee Riggers Location: Devonport, Plymouth, GB, PL1 4SG Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Job Title: Trainee Riggers
Location: Devonport
Compensation: £29,006
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF 50758

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 Trainee Rigger at our Devonport site.

The role

As a Trainee Rigger, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This role is important as they work as part of a larger team ensuring that equipment is safe, accurate and fit-for-purpose.

Day to day, you’ll carry out rigging duties at Devonport Royal Dockyard.

• 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.

Essential experience of the Trainee Rigger

• To have a sound understanding of the use of bottle screws, shackles, thimbles, and blocks
• To be able to work at height.
• Training will be provided as and where necessary. Especially with regards the use of fork lift trucks and slinger duties.

This role is based onsite at Devonport for 36 hours per week.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance level 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 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

For the full extensive Benefits package please visit our Careers pages

Babcock International
For over 130 years 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: 01/05/2023

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