Vehicle Technician

Job Title:                     Vehicle Technician

Location:                     Chippenham, Wiltshire

Compensation:           £36,000 - £37,000 Dependent on Experience + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF73800

Keep vital defence assets mission ready

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 Technician at MOD Lyneham, near Chippenham, Wiltshire.

The role

As a Vehicle Technician, you will play a key role in maintaining and repairing military vehicles and essential training equipment that directly support defence capability. This is a hands-on position where your expertise ensures vehicles are safe, reliable and ready for use, helping to deliver critical training and operational readiness across the armed forces.

Day-to-day you’ll be required to:

• Carry out servicing, maintenance and repairs on wheeled and tracked military vehicles


• Diagnose faults using technical manuals and diagnostic systems


• Complete job documentation accurately to ensure compliance and traceability


• Maintain workshop tools, equipment and training aids to required standards


• Support team activities while ensuring all work meets health, safety and MOD requirements

The role is based onsite at MOD Lyneham, and the set working times are Monday to Friday, 37 hours per week, with the opportunity to work this across a four day working week.

Essential experience of the Vehicle Technician:

• Using diagnostic equipment, laptops and IT systems in an engineering environment


• Demonstrate strong fault finding and problem solving skills


• Work within a team to deliver high quality engineering outputs to deadlines


• Communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues

Qualifications for the Vehicle Technician:

• Recognised qualification in Automotive Engineering, such as Level 3 IMI, City and Guilds, BTEC or NVQ, or equivalent experience from the armed forces as a vehicle mechanic or technician


• Hold a diagnostic technician qualification or have proven diagnostic experience

• Full UK driving licence (Category B)

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) 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: 22/06/2026

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