Vehicle Mechanic in Darlington

Job Title: Vehicle Mechanic

Location: Overseas Deployment, Kenya, Brunei or Belize

Compensation: £60,852.00 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF76340

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 Maintenance Supervisor within our overseas operational organisation.

The role

Reporting to the AST Manager, the purpose of this role is to provide the first line management capability for our overseas operational organisation. They ensure the delivery teams have the people, tools and processes they need to safely deliver outputs against the plan(s). This role also requires that the Supervisor conducts Production output and Management output on a 60/40 basis where required.

Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

• Leading and supporting a team, including recruitment, onboarding, performance management, welfare and development activities.
• Managing resources, capacity and workforce planning to ensure delivery against operational plans and priorities.
• Coordinating systems, assets, tooling and safety-related activities to maintain operational readiness and compliance.
• Monitoring production outputs, responding to risks and implementing corrective actions where required.
• Driving continuous improvement, promoting health and safety standards and ensuring company processes are followed.

This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at DSG, Catterick.

Essential experience of the Vehicle Mechanic

• Experience leading or supervising teams within a vehicle maintenance, engineering, defence or operational environment.
• Experience managing workload, resources and operational priorities to meet delivery requirements.
• Experience supporting employee performance, welfare and development activities.
• Strong understanding of health, safety and compliance requirements within a regulated environment.
• Competent user of Microsoft Office, Outlook, SharePoint and business systems

Qualifications for the Vehicle Mechanic

• Completed relevant technical or vocational qualification equivalent to NQF Level 3 (Advanced apprenticeship, level 3 NVQ)
• Completed (or working towards) first line manager training modules (internally delivered)
• Completed (or working towards) British Safety Council Level 2
• Completed (or working towards) lean management for Supervisors (internally delivered)
• Competent PC user (MS Office, MS Outlook, SharePoint, ERP system)
• HM Armed Forces Vehicle Mechanic Class 1 (D827) / VOSA Examiner - Desirable

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) / Developed Vetting (DV) 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• '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
• Flexible working - we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment

Babcock

We're Babcock - a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 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. 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: 16/11/2026