Job Title: Vehicle Examiner
Location: Richmond, North Yorkshire
Compensation: Up to £45,000 Dependent on Experience+ Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74393
Help keep vital defence vehicles safe, compliant, and ready for the mission.
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 Examiner at Catterick, near Richmond, North Yorkshire.
The role
As a Vehicle Examiner, you'll play a key role in ensuring specialist civilian military vehicles meet the highest standards of safety, quality, and compliance. This is an exciting opportunity to combine hands-on vehicle inspection with technical assessment and certification responsibilities, directly supporting operational readiness across the defence sector.
Day-to-day you'll be required to:
- Conduct vehicle inspections in accordance with customer requirements, technical publications, and regulatory standards.
- Assess vehicle condition, identifying defects, and determining serviceability.
- Complete inspection reports, certification, and associated documentation accurately and efficiently.
- Maintain vehicle records and updating relevant systems to ensure data integrity and compliance.
- Collaborate with supervisors, engineers, and repair teams to support safe and effective fleet operations.
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 Catterick, and the set working times are Monday to Friday, totalling 37 hours per week.
Essential Experience of the Vehicle Examiner:
- Experience in vehicle inspection, maintenance, or assessment activities within military or civilian fleet environments.
- Good understanding of vehicle systems and defect identification.
- Ability to interpret technical publications and inspection standards.
- Experience working to quality, safety, and regulatory requirements.
- Strong attention to detail and ability to produce accurate technical documentation.
Qualifications for the Vehicle Examiner:
- Recognised military or civilian training in a relevant mechanical or vehicle discipline, or completion of an accredited apprenticeship.
Significant experience supported by one of the following:
- City & Guilds Level 1, 2 and 3 in Light or Heavy Vehicle Maintenance
- Ordinary National Certificate in an Engineering discipline
- National Vocational Qualification Level 3 in a relevant discipline
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
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: 07/07/2026
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