Job Title: Fleet Compliance Specialist
Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £45,000 - £57,000 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF75230
Help keep critical defence fleet operations safe, compliant and 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 a Fleet Compliance Specialist at Babcock Technology Centre, near Bristol.
As a Fleet Compliance Specialist, you'll play a key role in ensuring fleet operations remain legally compliant, safe, environmentally responsible, and aligned with customer requirements. Working within a highly regulated environment, you'll help drive compliance, assurance, and continuous improvement across a significant fleet operation.
You'll work closely with the Fleet Engineering & Compliance Manager and wider fleet leadership team, supporting vehicle specification management, compliance systems, safety controls, environmental performance monitoring, and audit readiness. This is an excellent opportunity for someone with a technical vehicle or engineering background who wants to broaden their expertise within fleet compliance and operational assurance.
Day-to-day, you will be:
- Managing vehicle specifications and supporting fleet build activities to meet customer and regulatory requirements.
- Monitoring compliance systems, safety controls, and environmental performance across fleet operations.
- Supporting audit readiness activities and ensuring compliance documentation is maintained and up to date.
- Collaborating with fleet leadership and technical stakeholders to ensure alignment with engineering standards and regulatory requirements.
- Driving continuous improvement initiatives that enhance compliance, safety, and operational performance.
This role is based at Babcock Technology Centre, Bristol, working 37 hours per week. Hybrid working patterns are available.
Essential experience of the Fleet Compliance Specialist:
- Technical background in vehicle maintenance, transport operations, or engineering supported by relevant practical experience.
- Understanding of fleet compliance, safety, or regulatory requirements within a vehicle-based environment.
- Knowledge of environmental and sustainability principles.
- Ability to work effectively with multiple stakeholders across operational and technical teams.
- Commitment to continuous professional development and keeping pace with legislative and industry changes.
Qualifications for the Fleet Compliance Specialist:
- IOSH Managing Safely, NEBOSH General Certificate, or equivalent qualification.
- Awareness of industry safety standards, including areas such as Health & Safety at Work, LOLER, PUWER, or ADR.
- Transport Manager CPC qualification, or working towards it (desirable)
- Awareness of MOD fleet policy, including JSP800 (desirable)
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.
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: 03/09/2026