Job Title: Vehicle Mechanic
Vacancies: Multiple Positions Available
Location: Tidworth, Wiltshire
Compensation: Up to £33,889 - Plus £5,500 Per Annum Bonus + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF76886
Drive Defence Forward – Maintain the Vehicles That Protect Our Nation
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 Mechanic at Tidworth, near Andover, Hampshire.
The role
As a Vehicle Mechanic, you’ll be a key player in maintaining and repairing the vehicles that support our armed forces. From diagnostics to inspections, your expertise will help ensure our fleet is ready for any mission. This is more than just a job, it’s a chance to contribute to national defence while growing your career in a dynamic and supportive environment.
Day-to-day you’ll be:
- Diagnosing faults and conducting inspections to meet production requirements
- Servicing, repairing, and maintaining a range of vehicles and electrical equipment
- Using issued stores and equipment correctly and returning unused or faulty items
- Supporting a team-focused environment and adapting to changing needs
- Completing documentation and test certificates to current standards
Please note that the successful candidate will be required to pass a targeted medical questionnaire and/or medical examination as a condition of employment for this role.
Please note that this position involves manual work. This could include lifting, bending, using tools or standing for extended periods of time.
With a 37-hour working week, a variety of shift patterns including four-day weeks and 4.5-day weeks with half-day Fridays, flexible working hours across all locations, supplied tools and equipment, and opportunities for overtime, you'll enjoy the work-life balance, stability and support needed to thrive both professionally and personally.
Essential experience of the Vehicle Mechanic:
- Previous experience in a similar mechanical role
- Experience in a dealership or local garage
- Ability to adapt and build rapport across teams
- Strong teamwork and communication skills
Qualifications for the Vehicle Mechanic:
- NVQ Level 3 in Service and Repair or equivalent mechanical qualification
- Preferred: Ex-REME Class 1 Vehicle Mechanic with current competencies (not essential)
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 29,000 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: 11/11/2026
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