HGV Technician

Babcock International; Greater London; On-site; GBP 48,000 - 52,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Digital GP and health check

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Reservists in the armed forces leave

Holiday Trading

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock International in London is seeking an experienced HGV Technician to service, diagnose and repair heavy goods vehicles on site at Uxbridge/Ruislip. You’ll work as part of a skilled workshop team to maintain safety, compliance and operational readiness of critical vehicles supporting national capability.

The role offers a base salary of £42,637, plus a shift allowance of £5,542.81 and a discretionary annual bonus of £1,200, with overtime available at enhanced rates.

Qualifications

• Experience servicing and repairing HGV vehicles.
• Strong fault diagnosis and problem-solving capability.
• Knowledge of HGV maintenance requirements and technical specifications.
• Experience working to high safety and quality standards.
• Ability to work effectively within a workshop environment.
• GCSE level qualification is required.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose faults and identifying effective repair solutions on HGV vehicles.
• Carry out servicing, maintenance and repairs to keep vehicles safe and operational.
• Replace vehicle components and ordering parts when required.
• Complete maintenance documentation and service records accurately.
• Work safely while maintaining high quality workshop and compliance standards.

Skills

HGV servicing

Fault diagnosis

Vehicle maintenance

Safety standards

Workshop teamwork

Education

GCSE level

Job description

Job Title: HGV Technician

Location: Uxbridge, Greater London

Compensation: £42,637.00 + Benefits + Shift Allowance + Discretionary Bonus

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76308

Keep vital defence capability moving

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a HGV Technician at Ruislip, near Uxbridge, Greater London.

The role

As an HGV Technician, you'll play a critical role in ensuring specialist heavy goods vehicles remain safe, compliant, and operational. Working within a highly skilled team, you'll use your technical expertise to service, maintain, diagnose, and repair vehicles that support essential operations. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your career within a leading defence, aerospace and engineering organisation while making a meaningful contribution to national capability and public service.

Day-to-day you'll be required to:

• Diagnose faults and identifying effective repair solutions on HGV vehicles.
• Carry out servicing, maintenance and repairs to keep vehicles safe and operational.
• Replace vehicle components and ordering parts when required.
• Complete maintenance documentation and service records accurately.
• Work safely while maintaining high quality workshop and compliance standards.

The role is based onsite at Ruislip, totalling 40 hours per week. In addition to a base salary of £42,637, you'll receive a shift allowance of £5,542.81, a discretionary annual bonus of £1,200, and the opportunity to earn overtime, paid at 1.5x Monday to Saturday and 2x on Sundays and Bank Holidays.

Essential experience of the HGV Technician:

• Experience servicing and repairing HGV vehicles.
• Strong fault diagnosis and problem-solving capability.
• Knowledge of HGV maintenance requirements and technical specifications.
• Experience working to high safety and quality standards.
• Ability to work effectively within a workshop environment.

Qualifications for the HGV Technician:

• Educated to GCSE level.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) 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 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.

Closing date: 20/10/2026