Calibration Facility Administrator
// Role Summary
Babcock seeks a highly organised Calibration Facility Administrator in Helensburgh to provide vital administrative support for critical defence operations, ensuring precision, quality, and efficient calibration processes.
// Key Responsibilities
- Provide essential administrative and documentation support for the Northern Calibration Facility.
- Maintain calibration procedures, records, and manage calibration certificates.
- Coordinate with teams and manage operational supplies.
- Utilise strong organisational skills and attention to detail in a defence environment.
- Requires the ability to obtain and maintain Security Check (SC) clearance.
// Role Specification
Calibration Facility Administrator
Keep critical defence operations running through precision, organisation, and teamwork. At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. As a Calibration Facility Administrator at our HMNB Clyde Faslane site, you can play your part.
As a Calibration Facility Administrator, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll provide vital administrative support to the Northern Calibration Facility, helping to ensure quality standards, documentation, and calibration processes are delivered efficiently and accurately. This is an excellent opportunity to join a specialist team supporting critical defence infrastructure, where your organisational skills and attention to detail will make a real impact.
Day-to-day responsibilities include:
- Providing documentation and administrative support activities in line with safety, quality, and operational requirements.
- Reviewing and coordinating quality documentation throughout project lifecycles.
- Maintaining approved calibration procedures and records within the Calibration Online Information Network.
- Managing calibration certificates, equipment records, and associated documentation.
- Arranging meetings, producing reports and minutes, coordinating visitor notifications, and ordering operational supplies.
This role is full time, 36 hours per week, Monday to Thursday, and is based on site at HMNB Clyde Faslane. Agile working arrangements are available following an initial period of onsite training and familiarisation.
Essential Experience:
- Experience working in an administration role within an office-based environment.
- Strong working knowledge of Microsoft Office applications.
- Experience using business systems and administrative software.
- Excellent organisational skills with strong attention to detail.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively within a team.
Qualifications:
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) PSA and NNPPI 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.
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
- ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year for volunteering.
Babcock is a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 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.