Job Title: Driver
Location: Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Drive Your Career Forward with Babcock
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 Halton, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
The role
As a Driver, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be at the heart of our Transport Services team, ensuring RAF personnel, equipment, and vehicles get to the right place at the right time. This is more than just driving — it’s about supporting national defence and contributing to a mission that matters. You’ll operate a wide range of vehicles, from passenger cars and minibuses to large goods vehicles, making every journey count.
Day-to-day you’ll be responsible for:
1. Driving and ensuring vehicles are fit for purpose, maintained, and clean
2. Updating documentation before and after journeys
3. Reporting defects promptly and accurately
4. Carrying out all driving tasks as requested, including transporting senior stakeholders
5. Supporting the team with safe and efficient transport operations.
This is a full-time, permanent role, based on site at RAF Halton. You’ll work an average of 39 hours per week on a shift basis:
Earlies: 06:00–13:30 (Mon–Fri)
Lates: 13:00–20:30 (Mon–Fri)
Days: 07:30–16:30 (Mon–Thurs), 07:30–15:30 (Fri)
Weekend Duty: One in every 8 weeks (06:30–18:30)
Essential experience of the Driver
6. Experience operating similar vehicles
7. Strong interpersonal skills and diplomacy in customer-facing situations
8. Familiarity with driving documentation such as Tachograph
9. Ability to work flexibly within a shift-based environment
Qualifications for the Driver
10. Current and valid UK Category D Driving Licence
11. Digital tachograph card.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain 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
12. Generous holiday allowance
13. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
14. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
15. Employee share scheme
16. Employee shopping savings portal
17. Payment of Professional Fees
18. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
19. 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.
20. ‘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