Job Title: Vehicle Decommissioner
Location: Walsall, West Midlands
Compensation: From £26,663.64 Dependent on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF70795
Play your part in shaping a safer world – join our team as a Vehicle Decommissioner
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Vehicle Decommissioner at our Walsall site, near Birmingham, West Midlands.
The role
As a Vehicle Decommissioner, you’ll be at the heart of our mission to support national security and defence. You’ll work within our specialist decommissioning team, ensuring vehicles that have served the police are prepared to the highest standards for their next chapter. This is a hands-on role where your skills will make a tangible difference, and you’ll have the opportunity to develop your expertise in a dynamic environment.
Day-to-day you’ll be required to:
- Strip vehicles including cars, vans, trucks, and motorbikes of police specific equipment
- Remove electronics, specialist fittings, and security components
- Complete accurate paperwork for each vehicle processed
- Work collaboratively with internal stakeholders and production teams
- Maintain high standards of safety and compliance throughout all tasks
Please note that this position involves manual work. This could include lifting, bending, using tools or standing for extended periods of time.
The role is based onsite at Walsall, and the set working times are Monday to Thursday 7:00am–4:00pm and Friday 7:00am–12:00pm (or 8:00am–5:00pm / 8:00am–1:00pm), totalling 39 hours per week. Overtime opportunities are available.
Essential experience of the Vehicle Decommissioner:
- Knowledge of cars and vans and ability to strip vehicles down
- Skilled in using hand tools (own tools required; larger tools provided onsite)
Qualifications for the Vehicle Decommissioner:
- Full UK Manual Driving Licence
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) and NPPV 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: 23/01/2026