Compensation: From £30,000 DOE plus overtime available + Benefits
Role ID: SF76015
Keep Critical Facilities Running. Help Create a Safe and Secure World.
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Facilities Maintenance Engineer at Walsall, near Walsall, West Midlands.
This is an exciting opportunity to join a supportive and flexible team where no two days are the same. You'll play a vital role in maintaining the facilities and infrastructure that support important operational activities. Whether you're carrying out planned maintenance, responding to breakdowns, or helping improve site performance, your work will make a real difference while developing your technical skills in a dynamic engineering environment.
As a Facilities Maintenance Engineer, you'll provide operational facilities maintenance support across the site, ensuring buildings, equipment, and infrastructure remain safe, reliable, and fit for purpose. This varied role offers the chance to combine electrical and facilities maintenance expertise while contributing to a business that helps support national defence and security.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
This role is full time, 39 hours per week and is based at Walsall. Set working times are Monday to Thursday, 7:00am to 4:00pm, and Friday, 7:00am to 12:00pm, with flexibility available.
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) and Non-Police Personnel Vetting (NPPV) 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 (www.gov.uk).
We’re Babcock — 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.
Closing date: 09/10/2026
Babcock is a FTSE 100 defence company operating in our focus countries of the UK, Australasia, Canada, France and South Africa, with exports to additional markets.
Our Purpose, to create a safe and secure world, together, defines our strategy. We support and enhance our customers’ defence and security capabilities and critical assets through a range of product and service solutions. We meet our customers’ requirements of value for money, increased availability, modernisation and flexibility.
These projects take all different kinds of professionals, from chartered engineers and project managers, to naval architects, data analysts and everything in between. To bring through the next generation of engineering and business experts, we offer apprenticeships and roles for students, graduates and fully-qualified professionals.
There’s never been a better time to join us. Whether you’re looking for a new business management project or engineering role, join Babcock and grow with us.
Babcock is a Disability Confident, Committed Employer
