Apprenticeship Coach

Job Title: Motor Vehicle Skills Assessor

Location: Salisbury, Wiltshire + Fully Remote + Frequent Travel to Sites

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Company Car + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Drive the future of defence engineering

The role

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Motor Vehicle Skills Assessor covering sites across the Southwest.

Day-to-day you’ll be:

• Visiting learners in their workplace to deliver coaching, assessment and support
• Motivating and guiding apprentices through their qualification journey
• Monitoring progress and ensuring timely completion of all programme components
• Advising learners on portfolio building and meeting programme requirements
• Recording and tracking learner progress in line with reporting processes

Essential experience of the Motor Vehicle Skills Assessor:

• Considerable experience as a qualified assessor
• Strong background in a relevant industry environment
• Good understanding of work-based learning programmes

Qualifications for the Motor Vehicle Skills Assessor:

• Certificate in Assessing Vocational Achievement (or equivalent)
• GCSE grade C or above (or equivalent) in Maths and English
• Vehicle Mechanic Level 3 Qualification (minimum Level 3)

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC), Enhanced DBS, Child Barring Service and Adult Barring Service 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 26,000 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: 10/02/2026