Vehicle Maintenance Operative

Job Title:                     Vehicle Maintenance Operative 

Location:                     Wareham, Dorset

Compensation:           £27,471.00 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF69406

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 Maintenance Operative at our Bovington, Dorset site.

The role

As a Vehicle Maintenance Operative, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will be maintaining, operating, and driving Armoured Fighting Vehicles and other specialist platforms, delivering critical support to the Contract in a dynamic and high-impact environment.

Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:

• Perform Level 1 maintenance and repairs to vehicle-specific standards, following authorised procedures where training is provided
• Conduct preparatory tasks including minor repairs, cleaning, painting, and refuelling
• Support usage tracking and routine checks of stores and equipment.
• Manage collection and delivery of vehicle platforms as required
• Safely operate vehicles on public roads and off-road, day and night

This role is full time working 39 hours per week and is based on site at Bovington, Dorset.

Essential experience of the Vehicle Maintenance Operative:

• Strong communicator, confident in representing the department during meetings and site visits
• Manual handling and physical working
• Must be 21 or older due to licensing requirements.

Qualifications for the Vehicle Maintenance Operative:

• Full manual UK Driving Licence. 

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 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-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 [email protected] 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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