Maintenance Technician in Bristol

Location: Avonmouth, Bristol

Compensation: £31,126 - £31,709 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Play a Key Role in Maintaining Live Fire‑Training Environments

At Babcock, we are working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Maintenance Technician at Severn Park Fire & Rescue, near Avonmouth, supporting frontline emergency‑services training.

The role

As a Maintenance Technician, you will join a highly skilled and hands‑on technical team responsible for maintaining, repairing and preparing specialist fire‑training buildings, rigs, breathing apparatus equipment and operational training environments. This work ensures crews can train safely and effectively, 365 days a year. It is a uniquely practical and varied role where no two days look the same — and where your work directly supports public‑safety training.

Day-to-day, you will be required to:

• Carry out hands‑on maintenance, repairs and decorating to keep training buildings and facilities safe, clean and operational
• Prepare, maintain and inspect fire‑training equipment, breathing apparatus, rigs and training areas to ensure operational readiness
• Complete routine checks, planned maintenance tasks, defect logging and updates through the planned maintenance system
• Maintain safety and compliance by working to SOPs, HS&E standards, risk assessments and ISO documentation requirements
• Support wider site operations including vehicle movements (LGV/forklift), stock management, and maintaining tidy, functional facilities.

This is a full‑time onsite role, working 37 hours, 4 days on and 4 days off rota across an 8‑day period, including weekends, from 07:00 to 17:30.

Essential experience of the Maintenance Technician:

• Practical maintenance experience, including repairs, equipment care, decorating and facility upkeep
• Understanding of Health, Safety & Environmental safe systems of work, including SOPs and compliance processes
• Ability to work in a physically active environment, carrying out manual tasks safely
• IT literacy, including use of maintenance systems and Microsoft Office for reporting
• Experience handling or maintaining specialist or safety‑critical equipment (e.g., BA equipment) is desirable.

Qualifications for the Maintenance Technician:

We value difference and do not have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) 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.

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 are Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference. Here, you will 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 are 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 with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We are 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: 03/03/2026