Senior Vehicle Technician

Job Title:                     Senior Vehicle Technician

Location:                     Andover, Hampshire

Compensation:           From for £40,000 to £45,000 Dependent on Experience + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF73691

Shape technical excellence at the heart of operational delivery

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Senior Vehicle Technician at Andover, near Hampshire.

The role

As a Senior Vehicle Technician, you’ll play a critical role within the Equipment Support Cell, ensuring technical solutions are robust, compliant and delivered to the highest standards. Working at the centre of operations, engineering and the supply chain, you’ll help bring people and processes together to resolve technical challenges and support vital defence programmes.

Day-to-day you’ll be required to:

• Reviewing and validating technical requests to ensure accuracy and compliance


• Supporting collaboration between operational teams, engineers and supply chain colleagues


• Providing expert guidance across maintenance, repair and overhaul activities


• Resolving technical issues and contributing to continuous improvement activities


• Maintaining high standards of quality, safety and regulatory compliance

The role is based onsite at Andover, and the set working times are Monday to Friday, totalling 37 hours per week.

Essential experience of the Senior Vehicle Technician:

• Holding an ex-military background as a Class 1 Vehicle Mechanic


• Demonstrating proven experience in production, maintenance, repair and overhaul of military vehicles


• Applying strong technical problem-solving skills within an operational environment

Qualifications for the Senior Vehicle Technician:

• NVQ Level 3 or higher in Vehicle Service and Repair, or an equivalent mechanical qualification

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: 26/06/2026

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