Job Title: HGV Technician
Location: Luton, Bedfordshire - Commutable from Milton Keynes and Northampton
Compensation: Competetive
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF70361
Keep emergency response vehicles mission-ready and make a real difference every day.
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us as a HGV Technician, you’ll play a vital role in keeping specialist emergency vehicles operational. This is a field‑based role working across sites in the Luton, Bedfordshire area, and is well‑suited to candidates based in Luton, Bedfordshire, Milton Keynes or Northampton who are within a comfortable commuting distance.
The role
As a HGV Technician, you’ll deliver first-class servicing, maintenance, and repairs on heavy goods vehicles and specialist fire service equipment to MOT and operational standards.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Carry out servicing, maintenance, and repairs on HGVs, LGVs, and fire service modules.
- Diagnose faults using recognised test procedures, including road testing where required.
- Ensure compliance with Health and Safety and ISO standards.
- Record work progress accurately using company IT systems and liaise with the managed service centre and manage / schedule you own workload
- Travel to locations within your specified work area to deliver maintenance support.
The following will be provided:
- Van
- Fuel card
- Mobile phone
- Laptop
- Specialist equipment training
Please note that the successful candidate will be required to pass a targeted medical questionnaire and medical examination as a condition of employment for this role.
This is a full-time role (40 hours per week) that involves working from Fire Stations across Luton, Bedfordshire, supporting the New Dimension programme responsible for maintaining specialist emergency vehicles and equipment. We are ideally seeking a candidate based within a commutable distance of the wider Luton area, which could include Luton, Bedfordshire, Milton Keynes or Northampton. The role will also include occasional travel to our Bardon Hill workshop near Coalville, Leicestershire for team meetings.
Essential experience of the HGV Technician:
- Proven experience in servicing, maintaining, and repairing HGVs/LGVs and specialist fire service equipment.
- Hands-on knowledge of hydraulic systems, including repair and testing.
- Strong attention to detail in fault diagnosis and compliance documentation.
- Ability to work independently
- Experience in vehicle electrical diagnostics (desirable).
Qualifications for the HGV Technician:
- NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) in servicing and repair of HGVs/LGVs to MOT standard.
- Full UK Class C driving licence.
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 – buy or sell up to one week of annual leave
- ‘Be Kind Day’ – one paid day a year for volunteering
- Flexible working options
- A dynamic working environment
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: 02/03/2026
