Heavy Vehicle Mechanic Apprenticeship Babcock International

As a Babcock Defence Support Group Technical Apprentice on our Heavy Vehicle Service and Maintenance Technician Apprenticeship, you'll work on a wide range of Military Land Equipment, tackling challenging and varied tasks in an exciting environment. Your work will play a crucial role in ensuring the armed forces have equipment they can depend on., As a Babcock Defence Support Group (DSG) Technical Apprentice on our Heavy Vehicle Service and Maintenance Technician Apprenticeship, you'll work on a wide range of Military Land Equipment, tackling challenging and varied tasks in an exciting environment. Your work will play a crucial role in ensuring the armed forces have equipment they can depend on.

No two days are the same as you provide vital services that assist critical military exercises and training. It's a chance to launch a career that makes a real difference to national security.

Apprentices will be trained to a Heavy Vehicle Service and Maintenance Technician apprenticeship standard (Vehicle Mechanics) to achieve a fully accredited Level 3 qualification. The academic aspects of the apprenticeship will be delivered off-site. The rest of the time, you'll be working from your selected home location, with opportunities to work from alternate sites for brief periods to broaden your overall experience.

The training you will be getting

Your apprenticeship will follow the Heavy Vehicle Service and Maintenance Technician standard to qualify with a Level 3 Advanced Apprenticeship certificate.

During your apprenticeship, in both an academic setting and through practical experience in the workplace, you will:

• Develop practical skills and skills working with hand tooling.


• Gain a full understanding of how machines work, including how to service, maintain, diagnose, and repair a wide range of military vehicles.


• Understand technical information and diagrams.


• Be able to write reports, describing the repairs and services you have carried out.


• Understand and follow health and safety regulations.
  
  IT skills, Attention to detail, Team working, GCSE or equivalent Maths and English (Grade C/4 grade or above) Essential, Many of our early careers roles are subject to Security Clearance and Trade Control restrictions which mean that your place of birth, nationality, citizenship, or residency you hold may impact which roles you are eligible for. You must be able to achieve BPSS (Baseline security) and many of them require you to be eligible for Security Clearance.
  
  Babcock is an international defence company operating in our focus countries of the UK, Australasia, Canada, France and South Africa, with exports to additional markets with potential to become focus countries. We meet our customers' key requirements of affordability, availability, and capability by delivering engineering, support and critical systems to defence and civil markets.
  
  You could reduce your training time, or finish your apprenticeship faster, if you have relevant prior learning or experience. This could be relevant:


• training


• qualifications, like an NVQ in a relevant field


• industry or sector experience