Driver Specialist

Job Title:                     Driver Specialist

Location:                     Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire

Compensation:           £25,269 - £30,576 Depending on Experience + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF71666

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Driver Specialist at our Ashchurch site in Tewkesbury.

The role

As a Driver Specialist, you’ll support the safe movement, storage and level‑one maintenance of a wide range of military and civilian vehicles and equipment. This is a diverse and hands‑on role where your work directly contributes to the readiness and smooth running of key defence activities.

Day-to-day, you’ll operate within a specialist team responsible for Vehicle and Main Equipment (VaME) processing, ensuring assets are received, inspected, stored, maintained and issued in line with customer and operational requirements. This role offers the chance to develop meaningful skills, gain experience across a variety of vehicle types and play a valuable part in essential national‑security support operations.

• Move and marshal vehicles and equipment safely across the site, including towing where required.


• Support the movement, storage and minor (level‑one) maintenance of a wide range of vehicles and main equipment.


• Load and off‑load vehicles, sub‑systems and associated equipment during receipt, inspection, storage and issue processes.


• Assist with tasks linked to VaME processing as part of the RIISM flow: Receipt, Issue, Inspect, Storage and Maintenance.


• Work closely with the Storage Supervisor and wider team to ensure all activities follow customer procedures and accounting requirements.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site in Ashchurch, Tewkesbury.

Essential experience of the Driver Specialist

• IT literate, confident using Microsoft Office applications.


• Experience in vehicle fleet management or logistics - Desirable


• Ability to work safely and efficiently in a vehicle‑movement or depot‑based environment.


• Strong team‑working skills with the ability to follow process and instruction.


• Comfortable working in a fast‑paced operational setting.

Qualifications for the Driver Specialist

• Full UK Driving Licence

• Additional vehicle‑related qualifications, plant operation or mechanical understanding - Desirable

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 [email protected] 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: 26/02/2026