Driver - Handler

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Southampton; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a dedicated Driver - Handler to join their Transport Services team at RAF Middle Wallop. This full-time role involves driving various vehicles, conducting maintenance checks, and ensuring timely transport of personnel and equipment. With a commitment to safety and excellence, the company offers a supportive environment and numerous benefits, including a matched pension scheme and health consultations. If you're flexible and ready to contribute to a vital mission, this opportunity could be your next career step.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

10-days special paid leave for reservists

Holiday Trading benefit

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Qualifications

• Must have a Category B and C driving licence.
• Knowledge of marshalling in a similar role.

Responsibilities

• Drive and operate general and specialist vehicles.
• Conduct daily maintenance checks on aircraft and Ground Support Equipment.

Skills

Driving

Marshalling

Education

Category B driving licence

Category C driving licence

Job description

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At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Driver - Handler at our RAF Middle Wallop site.

The role
As a Driver - Handler you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll have a key role working within a small but highly effective Transport Services team, where the highest standards will be expected. You'll be required to drive and operate a wide range of general and specialist vehicles, from Passenger Carrying Vehicles (PCV, which include cars, minibuses and coaches), to both rigid and articulated Large Goods Vehicles (LGV). You'll be responsible for making sure RAF personnel, equipment and vehicles get to the right place, at the right time!

Day-to-day you’ll be responsible for:

• Conducting see-in and see-off procedures.
• Carrying out fuel and oil replenishment on the aircraft.
• Undertaking daily maintenance checks on the company owned aircraft,
• Carrying out pre-use checks and be responsible for minor scheduled maintenance (A Check) on company owned Ground Support Equipment (GSE).

This role is full time and based onsite at RAF Middle Wallop, near Stockbridge. You'll work an average of 40 hours a week on a shift basis, however you'll need to be flexible as there may be changes to the roster from time to time, to meet customer needs.

Essential experience of the Driver – Handler:

• Knowledge of marshalling in a similar role.

Qualifications for the Driver – Handler:

• A Category B and C driving licence.
• You will be required to meet the CP2/CP3 eye colour vision standard.

Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain CTC 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

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

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.