Maintenance Technician

Babcock International; Gloucester; Hybrid; GBP 30,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense and engineering firm is seeking a Maintenance Technician to perform installation and maintenance duties at various sites. The role requires strong organizational skills, adherence to safety procedures, and a full UK driving licence. This full-time position involves hybrid working arrangements, supporting work-life balance and offering generous benefits including a matched pension scheme and development opportunities.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP services

Employee share scheme

Holiday Trading benefits

10-days special paid leave for reservists

Excellent development opportunities

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Qualifications

• Able to conduct electrical, data, and mechanical installation.
• Willingness to learn and adapt without fixed education background.

Responsibilities

• Conduct electrical, data, and mechanical installation and maintenance activities.
• Provide installation for various equipment at customer locations.
• Submit installation-related documentation for customer approval.
• Ensure adherence to relevant engineering standards and best practices.
• Work safely and efficiently to produce quality assured products.

Skills

Good organisational skills

Experience of working to safety procedures

Good understanding of COSHH regulations

Full UK Driving Licence

Job description

Job Title: Maintenance Technician

Location: Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

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 Maintenance Technician at our Ashchurch, Gloucestershire site.

The Role

As an Maintenance Technician, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be responsible to the Installation Team Leader to conduct electrical, data and mechanical installation and maintenance activities at remote sites.

• The role also provides short-term resource for various Service Delivery tasks and embedded Task Services Form activities. The role does require occasional travel and deployment at locations both in the UK and overseas.
• Work under the direction of an Installation Team Leader and provide installation, as required, for electrical, data, mechanical and communication equipment at Customer locations.
• Assist the Installation Team Leader to ensure that all installation related documentation is submitted to the Customer for approval prior to undertaking any installation activities and again on completion of all tasks; including method statements and risk assessments.
• Ensure all installation activities adhere to relevant engineering standards, including those set by Babcock, the Customer, and professional bodies, consistently applying industry best practices.
• Ensure they work in a safe and efficient manner at all times to produce quality assured products.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and provides hybrid working arrangements with days in the office and days working from home.

Essential Experience of the Maintenance Technician

• Good organisational skills, ability to prioritise. Experience of working to safety procedures. Good understanding of COSHH regulations.
• Must possess a full UK Driving Licence.

Qualifications for the Maintenance Technician

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to achieve and maintain Developed Vetting (DV) 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 share scheme
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• 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
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing
• ‘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.

Closing Date: 28/11/2025