Vehicle Inspector / Mechanic

Babcock International; Bath; On-site; GBP 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in defense and engineering seeks a Vehicle Inspector/Mechanic for its Warminster site. The successful candidate will undertake vehicle servicing, repair, and maintenance tasks while ensuring compliance with production requirements. This role requires strong experience in similar environments and relevant NVQ qualifications.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Flexible locations

Qualifications

• Previous experience within a similar role required.
• Hydraulics experience and dealership/local garage background preferred.

Responsibilities

• Servicing, repairing, maintaining, and overhauling vehicles.
• Conducting diagnostics and inspections on vehicles.

Skills

Team Player

Hydraulics

Education

NVQ Level 3 Service and Repair

Job description

Job Title: Vehicle Inspector/Mechanic
Location: Warminster, Wiltshire
Compensation: £31,500 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF65830

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 Vehicle Inspector/Mechanic at our Warminster site.

The role
As a Vehicle Inspector/Mechanic, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. With your skills and experience, you’ll be undertaking the servicing, repair, maintenance and overhaul of vehicles and electrical equipment, including diagnostic and inspection duties. You’ll also be carrying out equipment examination to meet production requirements.

Day to day, you’ll be carrying out work to the required standard and specification as detailed in accordance with customer requirements, current regulations, local instructions, process plans and other technical publications. You’ll also ensure stores and equipment issued to job are used for their correct purpose.

• Diagnose, inspect and assess vehicles and associated mechanical or electrical equipment in line with skills and competency
• Ensure stores and equipment issued to job are used for their correct purpose and un-used or new faulty material is returned to the section or department Team Leader as soon as it is identified
• Creation of job cards and demanding material where the relevant ERP (SAP) training has been completed
• Completion of vehicle and equipment documentation and test certificates or reports to current standards

Please note that the successful candidate will be required to pass a targeted medical questionnaire and/or medical examination as a condition of employment for this role.

Please note that this position involves manual work. This could include lifting, bending, using tools or standing for extended periods of time.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based at our Warminster site. The role offers an excellent work/life balance at 4.5 days a week.

Essential experience of the Vehicle Inspector/Mechanic

• Previous experience within similar role is required
• Hydraulics experience
• Dealership or Local Garage experience
• A real team player with the ability to adapt and build rapport

Qualifications for the Vehicle Mechanic

• NVQ Level 3 Service and Repair
• This role would ideally suit an ex-REME Class 1 VM with current competencies, but this is not an essential requirement

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 atUnited 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
• 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
• Flexible locations

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 [e-mail] 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: 31/07/2025