Job Title: Armaments Specialist
Location: Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
Compensation: £31,200 - £34,060 Dependent on Experience+ Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73690
Play a vital role in keeping defence equipment mission ready
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Armaments Specialist at Ashchurch, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.
The role
As an Armaments Specialist, you will play a crucial role in supporting the operational readiness of defence vehicles and equipment. Working within a skilled and collaborative team, you will carry out essential servicing, maintenance, repair and modification activities that ensure critical assets are safe, compliant and ready for use.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Carrying out servicing, maintenance, repair and modification of defence vehicles and armament systems
- Inspecting equipment to diagnose faults across mechanical, electrical and hydraulic systems
- Completing equipment examinations to meet production and operational requirements
- Ensuring all work is delivered safely, to quality standards and in line with compliance procedures
- Working collaboratively with colleagues to deliver reliable and timely outputs
The role is based onsite at Ashchurch, and the set working times are Monday to Friday, totalling 37 hours per week.
Essential experience of the Armaments Specialist:
- Experience undertaking servicing, maintenance, repair and modification activities
- Ability to inspect, diagnose faults and repair mechanical, electrical and hydraulic systems
- Experience carrying out equipment examination to meet production requirements
Qualifications for the Armaments Specialist:
- NVQ Level 3 in Mechanical Engineering, or equivalent Level 3 qualification in a relevant mechanical discipline
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 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: 02/06/2026