Job Title: Vehicle Maintenance Operative
Location: Wareham, Dorset
Compensation: £27,471.00 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF69406
The role
As a Vehicle Maintenance Operative, the role involves maintaining, operating, and driving Armoured Fighting Vehicles and other specialist platforms, delivering critical support to the contract in a dynamic high‑impact environment.
Day‑to‑day responsibilities
- Perform Level 1 maintenance and repairs to vehicle‑specific standards, following authorised procedures where training is provided.
- Conduct preparatory tasks, including minor repairs, cleaning, painting, and refuelling.
- Support usage tracking and routine checks of stores and equipment.
- Manage collection and delivery of vehicle platforms as required.
- Safely operate vehicles on public roads and off‑road, day and night.
Essential experience
- Strong communicator, confident in representing the department during meetings and site visits.
- Manual handling and physical working capability.
- Must be 21 or older due to licensing requirements.
Qualifications
- Full manual UK Driving Licence.
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 the company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. Eligibility for certain roles may be affected by place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency held.
Benefits
- 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 allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or 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 organization or registered charity.
EEO Statement
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.
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