Job Title: Driver and Ground Handler
Location: Stockbridge, Hampshire
Compensation: £29,287.05 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73358
Support frontline aviation operations in a hands‑on, safety‑critical 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 Driver and Ground Handler at the Army Aviation Centre, Middle Wallop, near Stockbridge, Hampshire.
Working within our Aviation business, you’ll be part of a small but highly effective Transport Services team. This is an operational role where high standards matter, supporting aircraft, personnel, and equipment to ensure operations run safely and on time.
As a Driver and Ground Handler, you’ll carry out a varied range of airside and transport duties. From aircraft ground handling to operating specialist vehicles and equipment, you’ll play a key role in day‑to‑day aviation activity on site.
Day-to-day, you will be:
- Carrying out aircraft see‑in and see‑off procedures on the airfield
- Driving and operating a range of general and specialist vehicles
- Refuelling aircraft and undertaking oil replenishment tasks
- Completing daily checks and minor scheduled maintenance on Ground Support Equipment (GSE)
- Supporting the safe movement of personnel, equipment, and vehicles across the site.
This is a full‑time, onsite role, working 40 hours per week, typically 08:00 – 17:00.
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.
Essential experience of the Driver and Ground Handler:
- Experience in a driving, handling, or operational support role
- Awareness of safe working practices in a regulated or safety‑critical environment
- Ability to work reliably as part of a small, operational team.
Qualifications for the Driver and Ground Handler:
- Full UK Category B and C driving licence
- Ability to meet CP2/CP3 colour vision standards.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (EDBS) / Standard (BPSS) / Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) 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.
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: 13/05/2026
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