Vehicle Mechanic

Babcock International Group; Gloucester; On-site; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in vehicle maintenance seeks a Vehicle Mechanic for its Ashchurch site. This full-time role involves servicing and repairing vehicles to meet production needs. Candidates will require NVQ Level 3 and previous experience in similar environments. Attractive benefits include a matched pension scheme, employee share scheme, and options for additional leave.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension

Employee share scheme

Holiday Trading

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Payment of Professional Fees

Qualifications

• Previous experience in a similar role is required.
• Dealership or Local Garage experience necessary.

Responsibilities

• Servicing, repairing, maintaining, and overhauling vehicles.
• Diagnosing and inspecting vehicles and electrical equipment.
• Creating job cards and managing material demands.

Skills

Team player

Adaptability

Diagnostic skills

Education

NVQ Level 3 Service and Repair

Job description

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Job Title: Vehicle Mechanic
Location: Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
Compensation: £28, + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF

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 Ashchurch 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 on site at Ashchurch.

Essential experience of the Vehicle Mechanic:

• Previous experience within similar role is required
• 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

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

What we offer

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• 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