Driver

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Peterborough; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 36,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP and health check

Employee share scheme

Shopping portal discounts

Professional Fees paid

Paid reservist leave

Holiday trading

Be Kind Day

Flexible working

Dynamic working environment

Job summary

Babcock is recruiting a Driver to join our on-site team at RAF Wyton, near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. You will be responsible for delivering passengers and freight across the UK, with early and late shift rotations and weekend work every six weeks.

We require a Full UK Driving Licence and Driver CPC, plus the ability to obtain BPSS and SC security clearances. This role offers benefits including a pension, health checks, and flexible working within a dynamic national security environment.

Qualifications

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong organisational and time management skills.
• Experience following operational procedures and maintaining accurate records.
• Proactive approach to health, safety and compliance.

Responsibilities

• Deliver passengers, freight, and equipment to destinations across the UK.
• Conduct daily vehicle inspections and report defects promptly.
• Complete tachograph records accurately and ensure compliance with driver regulations.
• Maintain vehicle cleanliness through valeting and routine husbandry activities.
• Follow transport policies, procedures and safety requirements while providing excellent customer service.

Skills

Communication

Organisation

Time management

Health and safety

Record keeping

Education

Driver CPC

Full UK Driving Licence

Job description

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Driver

Location: Peterborough, GB, PE28 2EA

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Job Title: Driver

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76246

Keep the UK moving while supporting a mission that matters.

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Driver at RAF Wyton, near Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Aviation business, providing essential transport services that support operational activities across the UK. As a Driver, you'll play a vital role in delivering passengers and freight safely and efficiently, ensuring our transport operations run smoothly. Every journey you make contributes to the wider mission of supporting critical defence capabilities while offering you the opportunity to develop your skills within a respected and growing organisation.

The role

As a Driver, you'll be responsible for delivering professional transport services across a variety of driving activities, including passenger transport, freight delivery, and chauffeur duties. This is a varied and rewarding role where you'll interact with a wide range of stakeholders while maintaining the highest standards of safety, compliance, and customer service.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Deliver passengers, freight, and equipment to destinations across the UK.
• Conduct daily vehicle inspections and reporting any defects promptly.
• Complete tachograph records accurately and ensuring compliance with driver regulations.
• Maintain vehicle cleanliness through valeting and routine husbandry activities.
• Follow all transport policies, procedures, and safety requirements while providing excellent customer service.

This role is full time, 42 hours per week and is based on site at RAF Wyton, Cambridgeshire. Shift patterns for this role are an early and late shift rotation, including one weekend in every six weeks.

Essential experience of the Driver

• Demonstrable experience operating vehicles safely and responsibly.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong organisational and time management skills.
• Experience following operational procedures and maintaining accurate records.
• A proactive approach to health, safety, and compliance.

Qualifications for the Driver

• Full UK Driving Licence
• Driver CPC – Certificate of Professional Competence

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) and 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 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 the majority of 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
• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment

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.