Driver - Armoured Fighting Vehicles
Location
Dorset | United Kingdom
Job description
Job Title: Driver - Armoured Fighting Vehicles
Location: Wareham, Dorest
Compensation: £25,044 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF56214
At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Driver at our Bovington site.
The role
As a Driver, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll be supporting a small, dedicated team, working directly with the Gunnery School and the Defence Support Group at the Armour Centre on the Bovington site.
Day to day, you'll be providing maintenance and driving support on Main Battle Tanks, Warrior Infantry and Reconnaissance Fighting vehicles, as well as some Wheeled AFVs (Armoured Fighting Vehicles).
- Safely drive and control vehicles
- Operate AFV Special to Role (STR) Systems
- Carry out non-specific preparatory work on vehicles
- Carry out Level 1 maintenance and repair tasks as specified in publications for vehicle type. Work to be carried out in accordance with authorised procedures and to be completed to the highest possible standard
- Assist in collecting usage information and in carrying out regular checks of stores and equipment as requested
This Driver role is full-time and based on site at our MOD Bovington facility.
Qualifications for the Driver
- Must have a full UK driving licence
- Military background and driving licence category's C or H would be desirable.
The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC security clearance level for this role.
Our Benefits
- Generous holiday allowance
- Contributory Pension scheme, with life assurance
- 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 most 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
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock International have helped to defend nations, protect communities, and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. 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: 13/03/24
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Salary
£25.04k per annum
