Job Title: General Labourer
Location: Bedfordshire, England
Compensation: £25,552.80 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72272
Help keep a key RAF site running safely, smoothly and efficiently
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a General Labourer at RAF Henlow, supporting essential site operations that help maintain a clean, safe and effective working environment for station personnel and parented units.
As a General Labourer, you’ll be part of the on‑site support team providing a wide range of labouring, cleaning and logistical activities across RAF Henlow. Your work will contribute to the smooth running of the station by helping maintain its appearance, supporting station functions and ensuring equipment, stores and facilities are handled safely and efficiently.
Day-to-day, you’ll be:
- Carrying out general labouring duties including cleaning, maintenance and litter collection across station areas
- Helping maintain the appearance and condition of the site
- Collecting and handling items for disposal or recycling
- Moving and transporting stores, furniture and office equipment
- Setting up and dismantling equipment for functions (e.g., tents, marquees, seating)
- Supporting winter maintenance such as gritting and salting pathways.
This role is full time working 39 hours per week and is based on site at RAF Henlow, Bedfordshire. You will work Monday to Friday, with flexible start times between 06:30 and 08:00.
Essential experience of the General Labourer:
- Ability to communicate clearly (written and verbal)
- Comfortable working to defined procedures and guidelines
- Understanding of Health & Safety principles
- Manual handling capability
- Full UK driving licence.
Qualifications for the General Labourer:
We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.
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: 25/03/2026
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