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Job Title: Vehicle Mechanic

Vacancies: Multiple Positions Available
Location: Tidworth, Wiltshire
Compensation: Up to £32,760 - Plus £5,500 Per Annum Bonus
Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Are you a Vehicle Mechanic ready for your next adventure? Join Babcock International and become a vital cog in our mission to create a safer world, together. This isn't your ordinary job – it's an opportunity to be part of something extraordinary.

The role
We're on the lookout for HGV Vehicle Mechanics to join us at our Tidworth site. With your skills and experience, you’ll be undertaking the servicing, repair, maintenance and overhaul of vehicles and electrical equipment, including diagnostic and inspection duties. You may also be trained to carry out equipment examinations to meet production requirements.

Day to day, you’ll be carrying out work to the required standard and specification as detailed in accordance with customer requirements, current regulations, local instructions, process plans and other technical publications. You’ll also ensure stores and equipment issued to job are used for their correct purpose.

  • Diagnose, inspect and assess vehicles and associated mechanical or electrical equipment in line with skills and competency.
  • Ensure stores and equipment issued to job are used for their correct purpose and un-used or new faulty material is returned to the Supervisor as soon as it is identified.
  • Completion of vehicle and equipment documentation and test certificates or reports to current standards if required.

Please note that the successful candidate will be required to pass a targeted medical questionnaire and/or medical examination as a condition of employment for this role.

Please note that this position involves manual work. This will include lifting, bending, using tools or standing for extended periods of time.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Tidworth. This role offers an excellent work/life balance as it is a 4-day working week. Your typical working pattern will be Monday – Thursday, 0700 – 1645.

Essential experience of the HGV Vehicle Mechanic:

  • Previous experience within similar role
  • HGV mechanical experience
  • Dealership or Local Garage experience
  • A real team player with the ability to adapt and build rapport

Qualifications for the HGV Vehicle Mechanic:

  • NVQ Level 3 Service and Repair or similar level mechanical qualification.
  • This role would ideally suit an ex-REME Class 1 VM with current competencies, but this is not an essential requirement

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Babcock International is 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’.

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.
  • ‘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 is 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.

Equal Opportunities
Babcock International is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applications from all suitably qualified candidates.


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