Fleet maintenance manager

Holyhead

Babcock International

Maintenance manager

Posted: 17 June

The role

Job Title: Fleet Maintenance Manager

Location: Isle of Anglesey, Wales

Compensation: £36, - £40, Dependent on Experience + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF

Lead critical fleet operations that keep defence moving

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Fleet Maintenance Manager at RAF Valley, near Holyhead, Anglesey.

The role

As a Fleet Maintenance Manager, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring the operational readiness and safety of a specialist vehicle fleet supporting defence operations. Leading a skilled team of technicians, you’ll oversee maintenance delivery, drive compliance, and ensure assets are available when they’re needed most.

This is an exciting opportunity to combine hands-on engineering leadership with operational management in a highly regulated and purpose-driven environment, where your work directly contributes to national security.

Day-to-day, you will be:

Leading and managing a team of technicians to deliver servicing, repairs, and preventative maintenance

Planning and coordinating all fleet maintenance activities to maximise vehicle availability

Overseeing diagnostics, fault identification, and repair decision-making

Managing workshop assets, tooling, and spare parts inventory

Ensuring compliance with safety, environmental, and regulatory standards.

This is a full-time role working 39 hours per week, based on site at RAF Valley.

Essential experience of the Fleet Maintenance Manager:

Experience working within or alongside a military or highly regulated workshop environment

Strong knowledge of HGV maintenance operations and fleet management systems

Understanding of ADR regulations and specialist vehicles such as fuel bowsers

Experience producing and implementing risk assessments and COSHH documentation

Proven experience in procurement, supply chain processes, or local purchasing.

Qualifications for the Fleet Maintenance Manager:

NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) in a Mechanical or Electrical discipline

Valid UK HGV driving licence (Category C or C+E)

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (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 Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE organisation with over 26, 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.

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