Job Title: Ground Crew Instructor
Location: Stockbridge, Hampshire
Compensation: £36,225.00 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF71481
Train the next generation of military aviation professionals
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 Ground Crew Instructor at our Middle Wallop, Hampshire site.
The role
As a Ground Crew Instructor, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be at the heart of delivering specialist refuelling operations training to Phase two trainees and students in the Army Air Corps. This is a unique opportunity to make a real impact - developing future military professionals while advancing your own career in defence, aerospace and engineering.
Day-to-day you’ll be:
- Delivering classroom and practical instruction on military refuel vehicles
- Maintaining subject matter expertise and training currency
- Developing engaging training materials and lesson plans
- Managing fleet maintenance and fuel accounts
- Supporting trainees with progress tracking and reporting
This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and is based on site at Middle Wallop, Hampshire.
Essential experience of the Ground Crew Instructor
- Delivering high-level training in a structured environment
- Confident using Microsoft Office to create and present materials
- Hands-on experience with military refuel vehicles
Qualifications for the Ground Crew Instructor
- ADR Licence (Modules 1, 2, 3, 4*, 6)
- Full UK Driving Licence with C+E Category
- Defence Instructional Technique (or equivalent) - Preferred
- ADR (HAZMAT) Instructor (DST Registered) - Preferred
- Defence Train the Trainer Course - Preferred
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: 20/02/2026
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