Job Title: Driver
Location: Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Compensation: £30,211.88 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72533
Make a Meaningful Impact Every Day
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Driver at RAF Halton, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
The role
As a Driver, you’ll play a vital role supporting RAF operations and ensuring personnel, equipment and vehicles are exactly where they need to be. Working as part of a small but highly effective Transport Services team, you’ll operate a wide range of vehicles — from cars and minibuses to coaches and LGVs — while contributing to the smooth, safe running of daily activity on site. It’s a role where you’ll build specialist skills, develop professionally, and take pride in work that directly supports national defence.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
- Drive a range of Passenger Carrying Vehicles and Large Goods Vehicles safely and professionally
- Ensure all vehicles are roadworthy, maintained and clean before and after use
- Complete all required documentation accurately, including daily checks and tachograph requirements
- Report all vehicle defects promptly and in line with process
- Carry out a wide range of transport tasks, including driving senior stakeholders.
This is a full‑time, onsite position at RAF Halton, working an average of 39 hours per week. Shift patterns for this role are:
- Earlies: 06:00–13:30 (Mon–Fri)
- Lates: 13:00–20:30 (Mon–Fri)
- Days:
- 08:00–17:00 (Mon–Thurs), 08:00–16:00 (Fri)
- 07:30–16:30 (Mon–Thurs), 07:30–15:30 (Fri)
- Weekend Duty: One in every 8 weeks (06:30–18:30), with weekday time off provided.
Applicants must live within 1 hour of RAF Halton.
Essential experience of the Driver:
- Experience operating similar vehicle types
- Ability to demonstrate diplomacy and professionalism in sensitive situations
- Familiarity with transport documentation, including tachograph use.
Qualifications for the Driver:
- Valid UK Passenger Carrying Vehicle (PCV) licence (Category D).
- Valid Digital Tachograph Card.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain 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: 07/04/2026
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