Job Title: Driver
Location: Buckinghamshire, England
Compensation: £26,630 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF69866
Drive excellence in transport services
At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Driver at RAF High Wycombe.
The role
As a Driver, you'll be accountable to the Transport Services Manager, via the Senior Controller, for the safe and efficient execution of assigned tasks. This is a hands-on role where you'll transport senior RAF personnel to key destinations, including airports, while ensuring vehicles are maintained to the highest standards. When not driving, you'll help maintain the fleet and uphold operational readiness.
Day-to-day, you'll have the following responsibilities:
Carry out driving duties in compliance with Road Traffic Legislation and Transport Law
Complete vehicle checks before, during, and after use in line with specifications
Maintain accurate driver and vehicle documentation
Report vehicle defects promptly and ensure tachograph discs are completed correctly
Refuel, clean, and check vehicles to a high standard.
This role is full time working 40 hours per week and involves alternating early and late shifts as follows:
Early: 05:00 – 14:00 (may start later if no early work)
Late: 14:00 – 22:00
Includes 1 weekend day in 7.
Essential experience of the Driver:
Experience of driving a variety of vehicles
Sound knowledge of Driver's Hours Regulations in accordance with EU Directive 561/2006
Computer Literate; basic IT skills
Good diplomacy skills required
Ability to engage effectively with internal and external personnel at all levels, including senior stakeholders.
Must enjoy driving to various parts of the UK.
Qualifications for the Driver:
Full Category B driving licence.
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 ) .
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 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.
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 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: 06/03/2026
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