Job Title: Motor Transport Maintenance Technician
Location: Ruislip, Middlesex
Compensation: £33,507.97
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF76468
Keep the Royal Air Force moving. Build a career that supports missions that matter.
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Motor Transport Maintenance Technician at RAF Northolt, near Ruislip, Greater London.
This is an opportunity to join a highly skilled engineering team responsible for maintaining and repairing Ministry of Defence vehicle fleets that play a critical role in supporting Armed Forces operations. If you're an experienced vehicle technician looking for a rewarding career with purpose, stability, and development opportunities, we'd love to hear from you.
The role
As a Motor Transport Maintenance Technician, you'll carry out maintenance, servicing, inspection, fault diagnosis, and repair activities on a varied fleet of military transport vehicles. Your expertise will directly support operational readiness, ensuring vehicles remain safe, reliable, and available whenever they are needed.
This is a hands-on role where you'll work with specialist equipment, develop your technical capabilities, and contribute to work that helps protect national interests. Whether you're coming from a military, fleet maintenance, commercial vehicle, heavy goods vehicle, or engineering background, you'll find opportunities to grow your skills within a respected defence and aviation organisation.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
- Carrying out planned maintenance, servicing and repairs on Ministry of Defence vehicle fleets.
- Diagnosing vehicle faults using specialist diagnostic equipment and established fault-finding techniques.
- Conducting inspections and testing activities to ensure vehicles meet safety and operational standards.
- Maintaining accurate maintenance documentation and ensuring compliance with engineering procedures.
- Supporting the delivery of reliable transport capability for Armed Forces operations.
This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and based onsite at RAF Northolt, Set working times are Monday to Friday, 07:30 to 16:30.
Essential experience of the Motor Transport Maintenance Technician:
- Experience using vehicle diagnostic equipment and understanding diagnostic processes.
- Experience within a fleet maintenance, military vehicle, commercial vehicle, heavy goods vehicle, or similar engineering environment.
- Experience maintaining and repairing vehicles in a workshop setting.
- Knowledge of fixed installation testing equipment, including roller brake testing, emissions and headlight alignment equipment.
- Electrical direct current systems training and practical experience.
Qualifications for the Motor Transport Maintenance Technician:
- Level 3 Diploma in Heavy Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Principles, or equivalent experience as a Heavy Goods Vehicle or Large Goods Vehicle Technician.
- Full clean driving licence including Category B and Category C
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 29,000 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: 11/11/2026
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