Job Title: Electrical Vehicle Technician
Location: Walsall, West Midlands
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF66646
Power Up Your Career in Emergency Vehicle Engineering
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Electrical Vehicle Technician at our Walsall site, near Birmingham, West Midlands.
The role
As an Electrical Vehicle Technician, you’ll be part of a skilled and dedicated team that designs, builds, and supports customised vehicles for the UK’s emergency services and security organisations. Your work will directly contribute to keeping communities safe and secure.
This is a hands-on role where you’ll apply your technical expertise to fit, repair, and integrate advanced electrical systems into a wide range of vehicles. You’ll be working in a dynamic environment where every day brings new challenges and opportunities to grow your skills.
Day-to-day you’ll be:
- Fitting, repairing, installing and integrating enhanced electrical and electronic systems in motor vehicles
- Diagnosing faults and carrying out rectification work
- Designing and developing electrical solutions for vehicle conversions
- Supporting a range of conversion tasks including mechanical, bodywork, fabrication, welding and painting
- Working safely in an industrial environment, including manual tasks such as lifting, bending, and using tools
Please note that this position involves manual work. This could include lifting, bending, using tools or standing for extended periods of time.
This role is full time, 39 hours per week and is based on site at Walsall. The successful candidate will start in the role immediately after clearance checks are completed.
Essential experience of the Electrical Vehicle Technician:
- Demonstrated experience working with vehicles in a similar role
- Skilled in reading and interpreting electrical wiring plans and diagrams
- Comfortable working safely in an industrial setting
- Proven ability to fault-find and rectify vehicle electrical systems
Qualifications for the Electrical Vehicle Technician:
- NVQ Level 2 in a relevant qualification
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain UK - BPSS + Non Police Personnel Vetting 2 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: 20/03/2026