Job Title: HGV Class C Driver
Location: Coalville, Leicestershire
Compensation: £37,497.00 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72858
Keeping frontline emergency services moving – safely, reliably, nationally
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an HGV Class C Driver at Bardon, near Coalville, Leicestershire.
The role
As an HGV Class C Driver, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll sit at the heart of a nationally significant operation, ensuring the safe, timely and compliant movement of specialist emergency response vehicles and equipment across the UK. You’ll work in a trusted, close‑knit team where safety, integrity and pride in what we do come first. Alongside building long‑term driving experience within a high‑profile defence and emergency services environment, you’ll also strengthen your technical awareness, stakeholder engagement skills and professional confidence.
This is more than a driving role. It’s a career where your reliability, professionalism and commitment directly support public safety.
Day‑to‑day you’ll be:
- Delivering and collecting New Dimensions HGV and non‑HGV vehicles nationwide in line with scheduled plans
- Maintaining vehicles, tools and working areas to a clean, safe and compliant standard
- Completing basic diagnostics, including tachograph checks, and ensuring accurate documentation
- Recording and reporting work progress clearly while communicating effectively with supervisors
- Representing Babcock professionally at Fire and Rescue Service sites, always promoting safety and trust
Please note that this position involves travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role.
This is a full‑time, 40‑hour per week role, based on site at Bardon.
Set working times are 07:30–16:30, with overtime, call‑out and occasional overnight stays required (hotel provided). Travel to other Babcock and customer sites across the UK will be expected.
Essential experience of the HGV Class C Driver:
- Proven experience driving HGV Class C vehicles
- Confidence operating vehicles safely across long distances and varied environments
- Experience using vehicle compliance processes and tachograph systems
- A strong safety‑first mindset with attention to detail
- Experience representing an organisation professionally with customers or partners
Qualifications for the HGV Class C Driver:
- Full UK manual driving licence
- HGV Class C licence ( Manual or Auto)
- Valid Driver Certificate of Professional Competence
- Up‑to‑date Driver CPC training
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) 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
Babcock
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: 21/04/2026