Job Title: Mobile Repair Technician
Location: Croydon, South London
Compensation: £41,350.50 + Allowances + Benefits (Potential Earnings up to £53,785.80)
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF66683
Keep London’s Emergency Fleet Moving
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Mobile Repair Technician at Croydon, near South London.
The Role
As a Mobile Repair Technician, you’ll help support the London Fire Brigade by ensuring their fleet of over 460 vehicles and specialist equipment is always ready to respond. You’ll play a key role in public safety across Greater London.
Day-to-day you’ll be:
• Diagnosing faults and testing vehicles using specialist equipment
• Maintaining your company vehicle for roadworthiness and servicing
• Accurately completing job documentation and parts requisitions
• Identifying and reporting recharge cost instances with evidence
• Working across operational and training sites, performing manual tasks such as lifting, bending, and tool use
This role involves manual work and requires passing a targeted medical questionnaire and/or medical examination.
The role is based onsite at Croydon and offers a potential remuneration of up to £53,785.80, including a £41,350.50 base salary and allowances for shift work (£5,375.57), MRT allowance (£3,014.03) and on-call allowance (£4,045.70). The set working times are Monday to Friday, totalling 40 hours per week. Regular travel across internal and customer sites is expected.
Essential experience of the Mobile Repair Technician:
• Proven experience as a qualified motor vehicle technician
• Full UK driving licence (Category B essential; Category C desirable)
• Strong diagnostic skills and a methodical fault resolution
• High attention to quality and safety
• Understanding of workshop health and safety practices
Qualifications for the Mobile Repair Technician:
• City & Guilds Levels 1 and 2 in Motor Vehicle Studies, or
• NVQ Levels 2 and 3 in Vehicle Maintenance and Repair (or equivalent)
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 share scheme
- 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
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
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: 14/11/2025
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