Job Title: Crew Leader
Location: Dorset, South West
Compensation: Competitive Salary
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF66298
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 Crew Leader at our Bovington site, located near Wareham in Dorset, South West England.
The role
As a Crew Leader, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be responsible for supervising section colleagues, conducting personal development reviews, and identifying training needs to help your team grow and succeed.
Day-to-day, you will:
- Identify and request necessary servicing items and spare parts to ensure operational readiness
- Operate, maintain, and manoeuvre vehicles within your qualification scope, ensuring safety and efficiency
- Provide on-site support to customers during equipment usage, ensuring smooth operation and timely assistance
This is a full-time role, working 39 hours per week, based on-site at Bovington—near Wareham in Dorset, in the South West of England.
Essential experience of the Crew Leader:
- Proven experience using the Joint Asset Management and Engineering Solutions (JAMES) system, with a strong understanding of its functionality
- Confident IT user, proficient in Word, Excel, Outlook, and database systems
- Physically fit, with the ability to regularly perform manual handling tasks as part of daily operations
Qualifications of the Crew Leader:
- Full UK manual driving licence
- Category C (LGV) driving licence, enabling operation of larger vehicles
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 share scheme
- 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
- Growth opportunities
- Potential to develop skills
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
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: 14/08/2025