Vehicle Mechanic

Overview

Location: Woolwich, London

Compensation: Up to £32,760 – Dependent on Experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF63537

Keep Defence Moving by Maintaining the Machines That Matter. At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Vehicle Mechanic at Woolwich site, near London.

The role

As a Vehicle Mechanic, you’ll be part of a skilled team maintaining and repairing military vehicles and electrical equipment. Your work will directly support the UK’s defence capability—making this a career with real purpose and impact. From diagnostics to inspections, you’ll ensure our fleet is ready for action while developing your own skills in a dynamic and supportive environment.

• Servicing, repairing, and overhauling military vehicles and electrical systems
• Diagnosing, inspecting, and assessing vehicles and associated equipment
• Completing documentation and test certificates to current standards
• Ensuring correct use of stores and returning unused or faulty items
• Creating job cards and requesting materials using ERP (SAP) systems

Please note that the successful candidate will be required to pass a targeted medical questionnaire and/or medical examination as a condition of employment for this role.

Please note that this position involves manual work. This could include lifting, bending, using tools or standing for extended periods of time.

This is a full-time, permanent role based onsite at Woolwich. The set working times are Monday to Friday, totalling 37 hours per week.

Essential experience

• Previous experience in a similar mechanical role
• Hydraulics experience
• Experience in a dealership or local garage
• Ability to adapt and build rapport across teams
• Strong teamwork and communication skills

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 3 in 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 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 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

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: 09/02/2026

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