Mobile Repair Technician

Babcock International; Greater London; On-site; GBP 41,000 - 54,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous holiday allowance

Pension with life assurance

Digital GP & health check

Employee shopping portal

Professional Fees paid

Be Kind Day volunteering leave

Flexible working options

Job summary

Babcock International is seeking a Mobile Repair Technician to support the London Fire Brigade in Greater London. Based at Ruislip, you will diagnose faults, service fleet vehicles, and maintain thorough job records while ensuring safety and compliance.

The role involves manual tasks, some shift allowances, and a UK driving licence. On-site work with regular site travel across internal and customer locations is expected.

Qualifications

• Ability to diagnose faults in vehicles using specialist equipment.
• Full UK driving licence (Category B essential).
• Commitment to high safety and quality standards.

Responsibilities

• Diagnose faults and test vehicles with specialist equipment.
• Maintain company vehicle for roadworthiness and servicing.
• Complete job documentation and parts requisitions accurately.
• Identify and report recharge cost instances with evidence.

Skills

Diagnostics

UK driving licence

Safety awareness

Education

City & Guilds Levels 1 and 2 in Motor Vehicle Studies

NVQ Levels 2 and 3 in Vehicle Maintenance and Repair

Job description

Job Title: Mobile Repair Technician

Location: Ruislip, West London

Compensation: £41,350.50 + Allowances + Benefits + Potential Earnings up to £53,785.80

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76339

Keep London's Emergency Fleet 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 Mobile Repair Technician at our Ruislip site.

The Role

As a Mobile Repair Technician, you'll help support the London Fire Brigade by ensuring their fleet of over 460 vehicles and specialist equipment is always ready to respond. You'll play a key role in public safety across Greater London.

Day-to-day you'll be:

• Diagnosing faults and testing vehicles using specialist equipment
• Maintaining your company vehicle for roadworthiness and servicing
• Accurately completing job documentation and parts requisitions
• Identifying and reporting recharge cost instances with evidence
• Working across operational and training sites, performing manual tasks such as lifting, bending, and tool use

This role involves manual work and requires passing a targeted medical questionnaire and/or medical examination.

The role is based onsite at Ruislip and offers a potential remuneration of up to £53,785.80, including a £41,350.50 base salary and allowances for shift work (£5,375.57), MRT allowance (£3,014.03) and on-call allowance (£4,045.70). The set working times are Monday to Friday, totalling 40 hours per week. Regular travel across internal and customer sites is expected.

Essential experience of the Mobile Repair Technician:

• Proven experience as a qualified motor vehicle technician
• Full UK driving licence (Category B essential; Category C desirable)
• Strong diagnostic skills and a methodical fault resolution
• High attention to quality and safety
• Understanding of workshop health and safety practices

Qualifications for the Mobile Repair Technician:

• City & Guilds Levels 1 and 2 in Motor Vehicle Studies, or
• NVQ Levels 2 and 3 in Vehicle Maintenance and Repair (or equivalent)

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

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: 08/10/2026

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