Slinger

Job Title: Slinger

Location: Rosyth, Dunfermline

Compensation: £35,057 + Overtime + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF63990

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 Slinger at our Rosyth site.

The role

As a Slinger, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Working with a range of lifting and transport equipment including mobile cranes, Goliath crane, overhead travelling cranes, forklift trucks, SPMT`s (Self-Propelled Modular Transporter’s) and mechanical handling equipment.

Day-to-day, you’ll be executing lifting operations in a safe and controlled manner in accordance with the Lifting Operations Lifting Equipment Regulations (LOLER) 1998 and job specific method statements.

Lifting & turning of plates, units & equipment

Daily routine maintenance checks including pre / post use checks of lifting equipment and operational planning

General slinging, fleeting & transportation tasks

Forklift / sideloader / telehandler / SPMT / MEWPS (Mobile Elevating Work Platforms) / overhead crane operations

Ensure safe working practices adhered to at all times under “safety first” culture

Please note that this position involves working at height. Candidates must be able to work safely and perform tasks at varying heights.

This role is full time, 36 hours per week and is based on site at our Rosyth site.

Essential experience of the Slinger

Previous experience in slinging / rigging with the use of a range of equipment. (Plate / bulbar / beam clamps, magnets, vacuums etc.)

Health and Safety awareness

Strong organisation and problem solving

Good communication and collaboration

Qualifications for the Slinger

Recognised slinger signaller qualification - Min NVQ2 or equivalent.

Recognised rigger / fleeting qualification desirable.

Fork lift / side loader driving certificates

OHT Crane Certificates (Desirable but not essential)

MEWPS Training, IPAF (Desirable but not essential)

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 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 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

Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has 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 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: 04/06/2025

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