Job Description
Job Title: Driver
Location: Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF64402
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:
* Driving and ensuring vehicles are fit for purpose, maintained, and clean
* Updating documentation before and after journeys
* Reporting defects promptly and accurately
* Carrying out all driving tasks as requested, including transporting senior stakeholders
* 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
* Experience operating similar vehicles
* Strong interpersonal skills and diplomacy in customer-facing situations
* Familiarity with driving documentation such as Tachograph
* Ability to work flexibly within a shift-based environment
Qualifications For The Driver
* Current and valid UK Category D Driving Licence
* 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 (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 share scheme
* 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 International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 29/12/2025
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