Job Title: Vehicle Mechanic
Vacancies: Multiple Positions Available
Location: Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
Compensation: Up to £32,760 - Dependent on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF70710
Drive Operational Excellence – Be the Backbone of Military Mobility
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 Mechanic at Ashchurch, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.
The role
As a Vehicle Mechanic, you’ll be part of a highly skilled team supporting the maintenance and readiness of military and civilian vehicles used by our defence customers. From diagnostics to repairs, your expertise will ensure our fleet operates safely and efficiently making a direct impact on national defence and operational success.
This is a hands-on, rewarding role where you’ll work with a variety of mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic systems. You’ll be part of a collaborative environment that values precision, safety, and continuous improvement—offering you the chance to grow your career in engineering while contributing to something bigger.
Day-to-day you’ll be:
• Servicing, maintaining, repairing, and modifying military and civilian vehicles
• Working to technical specifications and safety standards
• Collaborating with your team to ensure operational readiness
• Diagnosing faults and inspecting mechanical, electrical, and hydraulic systems
• Carrying out equipment examinations to meet production requirements
Please note that the successful candidate will be required to pass a targeted medical questionnaire and/or medical examination as a condition of employment for this role.
Please note that this position involves manual work. This could include lifting, bending, using tools or standing for extended periods of time.
The role is based onsite at Ashchurch, and the set working times are Monday to Friday, totalling 37 hours per week.
Essential experience of the Vehicle Mechanic:
• Experience working in a dealership or local garage
• Previous experience in a similar role
• Strong team player with adaptability and rapport-building skills
• Proficiency in hydraulics
Qualifications for the Vehicle Mechanic:
• NVQ Level 3 in Service and Repair or equivalent 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 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
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: 12/03/2026
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