Driver

Nuclearinst; Swindon; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 33,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP access

Employee shopping portal

Payment of professional fees

Reservists leave – 10 days

Holiday trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock in Swindon is seeking a Driver to support Military Transport operations, ensuring safe, timely movement of personnel and vehicles while maintaining vehicles to required standards.

As a Driver you will perform daily inspections, assist with cleaning and presentation of customer vehicles, and may work occasional weekends or overnight tasks. Security clearance (SC) is required.

Qualifications

• MoD practices desirable.
• Experience in a customer-focused driving or transport role beneficial.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

MoD practices

Customer driving

Job description

Job Title: Driver

Location: Swindon, Wiltshire

Compensation: £29,850.00 + Benefits

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.

Day-to-day, you will be:

• 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.
• Driver digital tachograph card.
• 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

• 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 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.

Closing date: 15/04/2026

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