Armoured Vehicle Crew Leader

Babcock International; Wareham; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Matched pension with life assurance

DigiCare+ health services

Discounts portal

Professional fees paid

Reservists 10 days paid leave

Holiday Trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock International is seeking an Armoured Vehicle Crew Leader to supervise a 6–10-person maintenance team at Bovington Camp, Wareham, Dorset. The role combines hands-on technical work with people management, ensuring high standards of vehicle readiness for defence training and operations.

The position is based onsite, with a 39-hour week (Mon-Fri). A full UK driving licence is required, and Security Check clearance is essential.

Qualifications

• Supervisory or team leadership experience.
• Good computer literacy and ability to learn in-house systems.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to perform regular manual handling in a physically demanding environment.

Responsibilities

• Supervise a team of 6–10 personnel and develop them through coaching and training initiatives.
• Inspect equipment and compile job cards for Level 1/2 maintenance.
• Check completed maintenance work and close team job cards to standard.
• Identify required service items, consumables and spares for maintenance.
• Drive, operate and maintain military vehicles as qualified, ensuring safe, correct maintenance.

Skills

Leadership

Computer literacy

Attention to detail

Manual handling

Licensing (21+)

Education

Full UK driving licence

Job description

Location: Wareham, Bournemouth, GB, BH20 6JA

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Job Title: Armoured Vehicle Crew Leader

Location: Wareham, Dorset

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76313

Lead a skilled team maintaining vital military vehicles that support defence capability and operational readiness.

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Armoured Vehicle Crew Leader at Bovington Camp, near Wareham, Dorset.

The role

As an Armoured Vehicle Crew Leader, you'll supervise a team of 6-10 personnel carrying out maintenance and repair activities on military vehicles and equipment. This is an excellent opportunity to combine leadership responsibilities with hands-on technical work, ensuring equipment is maintained to the highest standards while supporting critical defence training and operational requirements.

Day-to-day you'll be:

• Supervising a team of 6-10 personnel and supporting their development through performance reviews, coaching and training identification.
• Inspecting equipment and compiling job cards detailing Level 1 and Level 2 maintenance requirements.
• Checking completed maintenance work and closing team job cards in accordance with required standards.
• Identifying and demanding servicing items, consumables and spare parts to support maintenance activities.
• Driving, operating and maintaining military vehicles for which you are qualified and ensuring maintenance work is completed safely and correctly.

The role is based onsite at Bovington Camp. The set working times are Monday to Friday, totalling 39 hours per week.

Essential experience of the Armoured Vehicle Crew Leader:

• Supervisory or team leadership experience.
• Good computer literacy and the ability to learn new in-house systems.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Ability to undertake regular manual handling activities and work in a physically demanding environment.
• Must be aged 21 years or over due to licencing restrictions

Qualifications for the Armoured Vehicle Crew Leader:

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. However, a full UK driving licence is required.

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 (www.gov.uk) .

What we offer

• 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 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

Babcock

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 [e-mail] 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.