Job Title: Vehicle Electrician
Location: Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire
Compensation: Up to £31,200 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF69965
Your Expertise, Our Mission – Maintain the UK’s Defence Fleet
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 Electrician at Ashchurch, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.
The role
As a Vehicle Electrician, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll carry out inspection, servicing, repair and overhaul of military vehicles and associated electrical systems. You’ll also perform diagnostic and inspection duties, manufacture miscellaneous items, and complete examination tasks to meet production needs. This is a hands-on role where your expertise will directly support the UK’s defence capability.
Day-to-day you’ll be required to:
- Carry out work to the required standard and specification as detailed on job cards
- Complete vehicle and equipment documentation and test certificates to current standards
- Create job cards and demand material where ERP training has been completed
- Diagnose, inspect and assess vehicles and associated mechanical/electrical equipment
- Accurately record job transactions in ERP systems and submit daily updates
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, 37 hours per week.
Essential experience of the Vehicle Electrician:
- Ability to take responsibility for unresolved issues or escalations
- Experience building effective relationships internally at various levels
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills
Qualifications for the Vehicle Electrician:
- Completed recognised Military or Civilian training in the relevant trade discipline OR an accredited Apprenticeship
Attained at least one of the following:
- City & Guilds Level 1, 2 & 3 (in relevant trade discipline)
- ONC (in relevant trade discipline)
- NVQ Level 3 (in relevant trade discipline)
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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
- ‘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
- Growth opportunities
- Potential to develop skills
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: 27/03/2026
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