Lifting Services Lead
Location: Faslane, Helensburgh, GB, G84 8HL
Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite
Job Title: Lifting Services Lead
Location: Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute
Compensation: Salary up to £70k plus 15% AIP and flex benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF62078
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 Lifting Services Lead at our HMNB Clyde site near Helensburgh.
The role
As a Lifting Services Lead within our Infrastructure Development section, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary where you'll be key to the business.
Day to day, you will act as the Lead Subject Matter Expert for Lifting and Slinging Operations within Babcock Clyde. Acting as the leader for both professional standards in lifting, lift plan production and execution.
* Oversee and govern Safe Management of all lifting operations (in accordance with LOLER), through the Operational Management team which by design, ensure that lifts are suitably planned, supervised and executed in a safe manner.
* Act as the lift manager under JSP975, governing a safe system of work all lifting operations within HMNB Clyde, ensuring that site policy and lift management plan are implemented & communicated across all levels of command.
* Determine the safe management competencies required for lifting activities and develop and manage the supporting frameworks. Take necessary action to resolve poor operational or cultural performance and promote and encourage ownership and accountability for all staff and workforce within their areas.
* Provide technical and managerial advice as required to personnel planning, supervising and executing lifting operations. Provide operational experience to those lifting operations to allow learning from experience to be incorporated in designed arrangements.
* Monitor safety performance of operational lift teams through audit, data analysis and other relevant means, and implement safety initiatives to improve safety performance. Demonstration of any improvement should be through metrics and measurement.
* Lead and motivate all the Lifting Operations staff to deliver the main objective and purpose. To manage the career development of management staff involved in lifting operations. Identify roles and individuals that should be considered as part of a succession plan. Support the addition of new personnel into the business.
Essential experience of the Lifting Services Lead:
* The post holder will have the ability to determine the competency, training, mentoring, auditing and certification requirements of all prospective and current Authorised Person (Lifting/Slinging) for HMNB Clyde.
* The post holder will have the ability to determine the competency and training requirements for technician and skilled person staff carrying out work on significant risk systems for all HMNB Clyde departments.
* Broad and deep knowledge of the design, operation, inspection and maintenance of large scale lifting and slinging equipment, systems and services in a highly regulated, high-hazard industrial manufacturing or maintenance environment.
Qualifications for the Lifting Services Lead:
* Degree in a relevant Engineering or Safety discipline or HND and further learning.
* Member of a relevant professional Engineering or Safety body (e.g. IMechE or IOSH)
* NEBOSH General Certificate would be desirable
* ISO9001 would be desirable
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain SC security clearance level 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.
What we offer
* 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
Babcock International
For over a century 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.
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 06/03/25
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