Job Title: Vehicle Mechanic
Location: Richmond, North Yorkshire
Compensation: £32, + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Keep vehicles mission-ready and make a real impact every day
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Vehicle Mechanic at Catterick, near Richmond, North Yorkshire.
The role
As a Vehicle Mechanic, you’ll play a vital role in keeping essential vehicle fleets operational and ready to support defence and national infrastructure. This is a hands-on position where your skills directly contribute to safety, reliability, and mission success. You’ll gain exposure to a wide range of equipment and continue to develop your technical expertise in a supportive, forward-thinking environment.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
1. Diagnose, inspect, and assess vehicles and associated mechanical or electrical equipment
2. Service, repair, maintain, and overhaul vehicles to required standards and specifications
3. Complete job cards, test certificates, and technical documentation accurately
4. Ensure all materials, tools, and equipment are used correctly and managed efficiently
5. Work in line with customer requirements, regulations, and technical instructions
This position involves manual work. This could include lifting, bending, using tools or standing for extended periods of time.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based at or Catterick site, near Richmond.
Essential experience of the Vehicle Mechanic:
6. Demonstrate previous experience in a vehicle mechanic or similar role
7. Apply knowledge of hydraulics systems
8. Bring experience from a dealership or local garage environment
9. Work effectively as part of a team and building strong working relationships
Qualifications for the Vehicle Mechanic:
10. NVQ Level 3 in Service and Repair or equivalent
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
What we offer
11. Generous holiday allowance
12. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
13. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
14. Employee shopping savings portal
15. Payment of Professional Fees
16. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
17. 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.
18. ‘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.