Vehicle Mechanic

Babcock International; Bournemouth; On-site; GBP 27,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

Join a forward-thinking company as a Vehicle Mechanic, where your skills will contribute to maintaining a safe and secure environment. In this full-time role, you'll be responsible for servicing and repairing vehicles, ensuring compliance with regulations and customer specifications. Enjoy a great work-life balance with flexible working hours and a supportive team culture. This role not only offers competitive compensation but also a range of benefits including generous holiday allowances and a matched pension scheme. If you're ready to make a difference in a dynamic setting, this is the opportunity for you!

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

Volunteering leave

Holiday Trading benefit

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a similar role is required.
• Hydraulics experience is essential for this position.

Responsibilities

• Service, repair, and maintain vehicles and electrical equipment.
• Diagnose and inspect vehicles according to standards.

Skills

Hydraulics experience

Team player

Adaptability

Education

NVQ Level 3 Service and Repair

Job description

Job Title: Vehicle Mechanic
Location: Bovington, Wareham
Compensation: £27,500 - £31,500 Dependent on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF 62936

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 Mechanic at our Bovington site.

The role
As a Vehicle 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

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 1 of our 3 sites around Bovington and Lulworth. The role offers an excellent work/life balance with the option to work 4 or 4.5 days a week. A typical working pattern will be Monday – Thursday, 0700 – 1645.

Essential experience of the Vehicle 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.

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

Closing date: 02/04/2025