Job Title: Vehicle Mechanic
Location: Overseas Deployment, Kenya, Brunei or Belize
Compensation: £57,425 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF65498
The role
As a Vehicle Mechanic, you’ll step into a role that is truly out of the ordinary. You’ll be deployed overseas to support advanced military wheeled vehicles—maintaining, diagnosing, and repairing equipment that plays a critical role in global defence operations. This is engineering with real impact. Every task helps ensure the safety, readiness, and operational capability of those who rely on these vehicles in demanding environments.
Day‑to‑day, you will:
- Carry out vehicle examinations and servicing in line with current legislation and safety standards.
- Diagnose faults and complete mechanical and electrical repairs on a wide range of advanced military vehicles.
- Apply modern repair techniques while adapting to unusual and varied vehicle platforms.
- Use technical manuals, diagnostic tools and digital schematics to support repairs and maintenance.
- Ensure all activities remain compliant with VOSA/Department for Transport requirements, health and safety regulations, and manufacturer guidelines.
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.
This role is full time, 60 hours per week and is based either in Kenya, Brunei or Belize. Typically you will work 3 months on 1 month off.
Essential experience of the Vehicle Mechanic:
- Confident using laptops, diagnostic tools and software, including Microsoft Word and Excel.
- Able to make rational, evidence‑based decisions under pressure.
- Comfortable challenging processes and holding difficult conversations when required.
Qualifications for the Vehicle Mechanic:
- A recognised qualification in Automotive Engineering with a minimum C&G level 3 or BTEC/IMI/NVQ equivalent or has served in HM Armed Forces as a Vehicle Mechanic Class One.
- B1 Driving Licence
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: 20/03/2026
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