Vehicle Mechanic

As a Vehicle Mechanic, you'll be part of a skilled and dedicated team responsible for maintaining and repairing military vehicles and electrical equipment. Your work will directly support the UK's defence capability-making this a career with real purpose and impact. From diagnostics to inspections, you'll ensure our fleet is ready for action while developing your own skills in a dynamic and supportive environment. Day-to-day you'll be:

• Servicing, repairing, and overhauling military vehicles and electrical systems
• Completing documentation and test certificates to current standards
Ensuring correct use of stores and returning unused or faulty items
• Creating job cards and requesting materials using ERP (SAP) systems
• Diagnosing, inspecting, and assessing vehicles and associated equipment.
Please note that the successful candidate will be required to pass a targeted medical questionnaire and/or medical examination as a condition of employment for this role. Please note that this position involves manual work. This could include lifting, bending, using tools or standing for extended periods of time. This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based onsite at DSG Aldershot, Surrey. A relocation package may be available, subject to eligibility.


• Previous experience in a similar mechanical role
• Hydraulics experience
• Experience in a dealership or local garage
• Strong teamwork and communication skills
• Ability to adapt and build rapport across teams.
Qualifications for the Vehicle Mechanic: NVQ Level 3 in Service and Repair. Security Clearance The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

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 DSG Aldershot, near Guildford, Surrey., 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.

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