Job Title: Vehicle Mechanic
Location: St Andrews, Fife
Compensation: Up to £32,760 - Dependent on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73869
Drive the Future of Defence Engineering
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 Leuchars, near St Andrews, Fife.
The role
As a Vehicle Mechanic, you’ll be at the heart of our mission maintaining and repairing military vehicles and equipment that support national defence. This is more than just a technical role; it’s a chance to contribute to something bigger. You’ll be working with purpose-built machinery, gaining hands-on experience, and growing your career in a dynamic and supportive environment.
Day-to-day you’ll be required to:
- Diagnose and repair military and occasional civilian vehicles and mechanical equipment
- Undertake inspections, assessments, and road testing
- Complete documentation and test certificates to required standards
- Ensure accurate reporting of work completed and time taken
- Use issued stores and equipment appropriately, returning unused or faulty parts
This position involves manual work. This could include lifting, bending, using tools or standing for extended periods of time. All tools, equipment, and personal protective equipment provided.
This is a full-time, based at our Leuchars site. You’ll work 37 hours per week, typically Monday to Thursday (8 hours per day) and Friday (5 hours). No mandatory overtime, night shifts, or weekend work.
Essential experience of the Vehicle Mechanic:
- Experience working with heavy goods vehicles (HGV)
- Confident using diagnostic tools and systems
- Competent computer user
- Holds a valid UK driving licence
Qualifications for the Vehicle Mechanic:
- Level 3 qualification in Motor Mechanics (Light or Heavy) via RQF NVQ/SVQ or EAL Level 3 NVQ/SVQ Extended
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: 15/06/2026
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