Vehicle Servicing Operative

Location

Ipswich, Suffolk | United Kingdom

Job description

Job Title:                  Vehicle Servicing Operative
Location:                  Ipswich, Suffolk
Compensation:        £28,487.55
Role Type:                Full time / Permanent
Role ID:                    SF56379

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 Vehicle Servicing Operative at our Wattisham Flying Station site.

The role
As a Vehicle Servicing Operative, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. An opportunity has arisen at Wattisham Flying Station for a Vehicle Servicing Operative working at 7 Aviation Close Support Battalion.

Day to day, you’ll help with the servicing and maintenance (both scheduled and unscheduled) of equipment, as well as:

• Carry out repairs in accordance with Technical Publications as directed within all Health and Safety guidelines. 
• Carry out routine inspections in accordance with Technical Publications within all Health and Safety guidelines.
• Ensure that all work is carried out and recorded in line with unit working practices and processes. Always ensure that appropriate clothing is worn, and that Personal Protective Clothing (PPE) is used (PPE is provided).
• Ensure that all Team-work areas are maintained in a clean, tidy and safe condition.
• Follow agreed “Safe Systems of Work” wearing appropriate provided PPE when required.

This role is full time and based onsite at the Wattisham Flying Station.

Essential experience of the Vehicle Servicing Operative

• Good hand skills, no experience of vehicle work required. Training and competency on-site
• Good interpersonal skills.
• Able to work on own initiatives with defined guidelines.
• Good communication skills.
• Good organisational skills

Qualifications for the Vehicle Servicing Operative:

• We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve the minimum of a SC security clearance 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: 15/03/2024    

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Salary

£28.49k per annum