Job Title: HGV Class C Driver
Location: Coalville, Leicestershire
Compensation: £37,497 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF70572
Drive Your Career Forward
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a HGV Class C Driver at our Bardon site, near Coalville, Leicestershire.
The role
As a HGV Class C Driver, you’ll be at the heart of our New Dimensions programme, ensuring the safe, reliable and timely movement of specialist vehicles and equipment across the UK. This role directly supports Fire and Rescue Service operations, helping maintain the high standards and reputation of our service. It’s an opportunity to make a real difference while developing your skills in a dynamic environment.
Day-to-day you’ll be required to:
- Deliver and collect New Dimension vehicles including both HGV and non HGV vehicles nationwide in line with planned schedules
- Maintain vehicles, tools and working areas to a clean, safe and compliant standard
- Support basic diagnostics, including tachograph checks, and ensure accurate documentation
- Keep clear records of work progress and communicate effectively with supervisors
- Represent the business professionally at Fire and Rescue Service sites, promoting safety and integrity
Please note that the successful candidate will be required to pass a targeted medical questionnaire and/or medical examination as a condition of employment, and this position also involves travel and working across a range of internal and customer sites as part of the role.
The role is onsite as you’ll be required to go to Bardon to pick up the truck or vehicle before heading out across the UK to drive. If you’re not scheduled to drive that day, you’ll be expected to work onsite. The set working times are 07:30–16:30, totalling 40 hours per week, with overtime and call-out requirements.
Essential experience of the HGV Class C Driver:
- Proven experience of driving HGV Class C vehicles
- Experience operating multilift systems is desirable
Qualifications for the HGV Class C Driver:
- Full UK manual driving licence and HGV Class C licence
- Valid Driver CPC (DCPC)
- Up-to-date CPC training
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 share scheme
- 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
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
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: 20/01/2026
