Job Title: Vehicle Mechanic
Location: Wareham, Dorset
Compensation: £32,021 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74473
Keep vital military vehicles mission-ready and build a career with purpose.
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 Bovington, near Wareham, Dorset.
The role
As a Vehicle Mechanic, you'll play a key role in supporting the maintenance, repair and operation of a diverse fleet of military vehicles. No two days are the same. From carrying out hands-on maintenance activities to supporting vehicle testing and road operations, you'll help ensure critical defence assets remain safe, reliable and ready when needed.
Day-to-day you'll be required to:
- Carry out vehicle maintenance and repair activities in line with authorised procedures and technical publications.
- Perform vehicle preparation tasks including cleaning, washing, painting and refuelling activities.
- Drive, operate and conduct road tests on vehicles for which you are qualified.
- Identify and order service items and replacement parts to support maintenance activities.
- Support customers and maintain safe, clean working areas while following established safe systems of work.
The role is based onsite at Bovington, and the set working times are Monday to Friday, totalling 37 hours per week.
Essential experience of the Vehicle Mechanic:
- Demonstrable experience in vehicle maintenance, servicing or repair.
- Strong understanding of mechanical systems and maintenance practices.
- Good IT skills, including Microsoft Office applications.
- Full UK driving licence.
- Ability to work safely, collaboratively and to high quality standards.
Qualifications for the Vehicle Mechanic:
- Level 2 City & Guilds or Level 2 NVQ qualification in Vehicle Maintenance and Repair
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: 03/08/2026
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