Job Title: Recovery Mechanic
Location: Richmond, North Yorkshire + Hybrid Working Arrangements + Travel to other sites
Compensation: £37,313 - £40,000 Dependent on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Fixed Term Contract 12 Months
Role ID: SF74480
Help shape the next generation of Army recovery mechanics
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Recovery Mechanic at our Catterick site, near Richmond, North Yorkshire.
Ready to take your career in a new direction? At Babcock, we value the deep expertise that comes from hands-on experience and we offer a unique opportunity to channel that knowledge into a rewarding new path. As an Apprenticeship Coach specialising in recovery mechanics, you’ll step away from the tools and into a coaching role where you’ll shape the next generation of Army vehicle recovery specialists, using your practical experience to coach, guide, and assess learners in real-world fault diagnosis, repair, and recovery operations. If you're ready to make a meaningful impact while growing your own career, this could be the perfect next step.
Day to day, you’ll be required to:
- Visit apprentices in their workplace to deliver practical coaching on recovery and mechanical tasks
- Support learners to build skills in fault diagnosis, repair and vehicle recovery operations
- Assess performance and recording progress against apprenticeship standards
- Provide clear feedback, guidance and ongoing support to help learners succeed
- Work with Army units and training teams to ensure quality, compliance and development outcomes
Please note that this position involves travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role.
The role is regional, covering sites across the North of England and Scotland, with a 37 hour working week, Monday to Friday. Regular travel to Babcock and customer locations will be required, alongside flexible and home working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Recovery Mechanic:
- Demonstrate mechanical or vehicle maintenance experience such as recovery, heavy vehicles or plant
- Show experience in operational or technical environments, ideally within a military setting
- Manage your own workload across multiple locations with strong organisational skills
- Communicate effectively to coach and support learners of varying abilities
- Apply practical knowledge to real world engineering challenges
Qualifications for the Recovery Mechanic:
- GCSEs in Maths and English at Grade C or above, or equivalent
- Relevant Level 3 qualification in vehicle mechanics or a related discipline
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) and Enhanced Disclosure Barring Service (EDBS) 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: 01/07/2026
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