Job Title: Vehicle Mechanic
Vacancies: Multiple Positions Available
Location: Donnington, Cottesmore
Compensation: Up to £33,889 Dependent on Experience + Benefits + £1000 Incentive Bonus
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF57082
Your Career, Engineered with Purpose
Are you an experienced Vehicle Mechanic looking for more than just another workshop role? Are you looking for a company that offers flexible working arrangements, provides all tools and equipment, and supports your long-term career development? If so, Babcock could be the opportunity you've been looking for.
With a 37-hour working week, a variety of shift patterns including four-day weeks and 4.5-day weeks with half-day Fridays, flexible working hours across all locations, free onsite gym access at every site, supplied tools and equipment, and opportunities for overtime, you'll enjoy the work-life balance, stability, and support needed to thrive both professionally and personally.
At Babcock, you'll use your technical expertise to help maintain and repair the vehicles and equipment that support the UK's Armed Forces and emergency services. From light vehicles and quad bikes through to specialist military platforms and battle tanks, your work will play a vital role in keeping critical operations moving. This is your opportunity to join an organisation at the heart of defence, aerospace and engineering, where innovation, teamwork and purpose come together to create a safer world.
With multiple opportunities available across the UK, excellent training and genuine career progression, there's never been a better time to join Babcock.
Day-to-day, you'll:
- Diagnose, service, repair and maintain military and civilian vehicles
- Carry out mechanical, electrical and hydraulic fault-finding activities
- Conduct inspections and assess vehicle condition and performance
- Complete testing, road testing and vehicle certification documentation
- Ensure all work is completed safely, efficiently and to required standards
No two days are the same. You'll work on a diverse range of vehicles while developing specialist skills and gaining experience rarely found elsewhere in the automotive industry.
What You'll Need
To be successful in this role, you'll ideally hold one of the following:
- NVQ Level 3 in Vehicle Maintenance and Repair
- City & Guilds Level 3 in Motor Vehicle Technology
- BTEC Level 3 in Motor Vehicle Technology
- Class 1 REME Vehicle Mechanic qualification
You will also have:
- Previous experience as a Vehicle Mechanic, Automotive Technician or Mechanical Technician
- Experience diagnosing, inspecting and assessing vehicle faults
- Knowledge of vehicle maintenance, servicing and repair practices
- The ability to complete vehicle documentation and test certification accurately
Experience gained within dealerships, commercial vehicle workshops, local garages, fleet maintenance environments, military vehicle maintenance or Armed Forces engineering backgrounds is highly desirable.
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 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
- 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
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing
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-life balance.
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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 26/10/2026
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