Driver

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Swindon; Hybrid; GBP 26,000 - 34,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP & Aviva DigiCare+

Employee shopping portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Reservists in the armed forces leave

Holiday Trading program

Be Kind Day - paid volunteering

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Driver at Lyneham, Swindon, to support essential transport services for Defence operations. The role involves safe, professional movement of personnel and vehicles, vehicle inspections, and customer service excellence.

It requires a D1/D licence, CPC, and security clearance eligibility, with potential for weekend and overnight work. You will join a ON-SITE team, adhering to MoD practices and company procedures to maintain high standards of safety and professionalism in busy

Qualifications

• Customer-focused driving or transport experience is beneficial.
• Excellent safety and professionalism in vehicle operations.
• Willingness to work occasional overtime/weekend/overnight as required.

Responsibilities

• Carry out driving duties across the Military Transport Section, delivering excellent customer service.
• Complete daily vehicle inspections before use, report faults and maintain cleanliness to required standards.
• Support the cleaning and presentation of customer-supplied vehicles.
• Provide flexibility for occasional weekend work or overnight tasks depending on customer requirements.
• Uphold safety, compliance and operational procedures while representing the organisation.

Skills

Customer service

Safety awareness

Flexibility

Education

Passenger Carrying Vehicle licence (D1 or D)

Driver CPC

Tachograph knowledge/compliance

Tools

CPD/Compliance

Job description

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Driver

Location: Lyneham, Swindon, GB, SN15 4PZ

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Job Title: Driver

Location: Swindon, Wiltshire

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF72495

Play a vital role in supporting Defence operations

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 Lyneham, supporting essential operational transport services for our customer.

The role

As a Driver, you will support the day‑to‑day activities of the Military Transport Section, ensuring the safe, professional and timely movement of personnel and vehicles. You will help maintain vehicle standards, provide high‑quality customer service and ensure all duties are completed in line with required procedures. Your work will directly support an important defence contract, helping keep operations running smoothly and safely.

• Carrying out driving duties across the Military Transport Section, delivering excellent customer service.
• Completing daily vehicle inspections before use, reporting any faults and maintaining cleanliness to required standards.
• Supporting the cleaning and presentation of customer‑supplied vehicles.
• Providing flexibility for occasional weekend work or overnight tasks depending on customer requirements.
• Upholding all safety, compliance and operational procedures while representing the organisation professionally.

This is a full‑time, onsite role, working Monday to Friday within the operating hours of 07:00 to 19:00, with occasional overtime, weekend work and overnight stays as needed.

Essential experience of the Driver:

• Understanding of Ministry of Defence practices (desirable).
• Experience in a customer‑focused driving or transport role is beneficial.

Qualifications for the Driver:

• Passenger Carrying Vehicle licence (Category D1 or D), including hire and reward.
• Driver Certificate of Professional Competence.
• Knowledge of tachograph rules and compliance requirements.

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 26,000 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.