Maintenance Operative

weServed; Cranwell; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 31,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Digital GP and Aviva DigiCare+

Employee shopping portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Reservists leave

Holiday Trading program

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock at RAF Cranwell, near Sleaford, Lincolnshire, is seeking a Maintenance Operative to join a small facilities team responsible for safe, compliant training environments for service personnel.

You’ll monitor building systems, perform routine testing and minor maintenance, support presentation, and escort contractors. The role is full-time, 39 hours per week, with an on-call rota and SC security clearance required.

Qualifications

• Basic computer literacy and willingness to learn new systems.
• Strong commitment to health, safety and safe systems of work.
• Proactive, hands-on approach to practical maintenance and facilities tasks.
• Effective communication with colleagues, contractors and site stakeholders.
• Reliable and organized in day-to-day responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Monitoring building systems, equipment, and facilities to ensure safety, compliant, and operational.
• Carrying out routine testing, inspections, and water hygiene activities.
• Performing minor repairs, touch-up painting, and general maintenance tasks across the site.
• Supporting building presentation through spot cleaning and basic upkeep activities.
• Escorting contractors and helping maintain compliance with health, safety, and statutory requirements.

Skills

Computer literacy

Health & safety

Hands-on maintenance

Communication

Organized

Education

Full UK Driving Licence

Job description

Job Title: Maintenance Operative

Location: RAF Cranwell, Sleaford, Lincolnshire

Compensation: £27,976.00 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76301

Help create safe, compliant environments that support vital military training

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Maintenance Operative at RAF Cranwell, near Sleaford, Lincolnshire

The role

As part of our Aviation business, you\'ll join a small but highly effective facilities management team responsible for maintaining compliant, safe, and operational training environments for service personnel.

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

• Monitoring building systems, equipment, and facilities to ensure they remain safe, compliant, and operational.
• Carrying out routine testing, inspections, and water hygiene activities.
• Performing minor repairs, touch-up painting, and general maintenance tasks across the site.
• Supporting building presentation through spot cleaning and basic upkeep activities.
• Escorting contractors and helping maintain compliance with health, safety, and statutory requirements.

This is a full-time, onsite role working 39 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 17:00, based at RAF Cranwell. Participation in an on-call rota will be required.

Essential experience of the Maintenance Operative:

• Demonstrating basic computer literacy and a willingness to learn new systems and processes.
• Working with a strong commitment to health, safety, and safe systems of work.
• Taking a proactive and hands-on approach to practical maintenance and facilities tasks.
• Communicating effectively with colleagues, contractors, and site stakeholders.
• Managing day-to-day responsibilities with a reliable and organised approach.

Qualifications for the Maintenance Operative:

• Full UK Driving Licence.

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 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: 12/10/2026

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