Job Title: HGV Class 1 Driver
Location: Walsall, West Midlands
Compensation: From £34, Dependent on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Keep the nation moving. Drive with purpose
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a HGV Class 1 Driver at our Vehicle Engineering site in Walsall, West Midlands.
The role
As a HGV Class 1 Driver, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will be a vital part of our Vehicle Engineering contract in Walsall, working as one of a small, professional driving team. This role offers variety, responsibility and pride in what you do. You will move a wide range of vehicles safely and efficiently across the United Kingdom, representing Babcock every time you arrive on a customer site.
Day to day, you’ll be required to:
1. Plan delivery schedules and routes in collaboration with transport managers
2. Drive a varied fleet ranging from cars through to articulated vehicles, recovery trucks and multi-deck transporters
3. Load, unload and secure vehicles safely and compliantly
4. Complete vehicle checks and ensuring all documentation and tachograph records are accurate
5. Represent Babcock professionally when working with customers and partners
Please note that this position involves travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role.
This is a full-time, permanent role working 39 hours per week, based at our Walsall Vehicle Engineering site, with average 3 quarters of the week time spent on the road. Set working times are Monday to Thursday 07:00 to 16:00 and Friday 07:00 to 12:00. Flexibility is required to start earlier, stay away overnight on rare occasions or travel with colleagues or on public transport when business needs demand it. Travel to other Babcock and customer sites across the UK will be expected.
Essential experience of the HGV Class 1 Driver:
6. Holding practical experience operating large goods vehicles in a commercial environment
7. Demonstrating a strong safety focus and compliance with transport regulations
8. Showing reliability, flexibility and a professional customer-facing approach
Qualifications for the HGV Class 1 Driver:
9. Certificate of Professional Competence (CPC)
10. Full clean Heavy Goods Vehicle driving licence, Category C and Category C+E
11. Valid driver tachograph card
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Enhanced Security Check (SC) and NPPV2 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 shopping savings portal
16. Payment of Professional Fees
17. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
18. 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.
19. ‘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 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.