HGV Technician

As an HGV Technician, you'll play a critical role in ensuring specialist heavy goods vehicles remain safe, compliant, and operational. Working within a highly skilled team, you'll use your technical expertise to service, maintain, diagnose, and repair vehicles that support essential operations. This is an excellent opportunity to develop your career within a leading defence, aerospace and engineering organisation while making a meaningful contribution to national capability and public service. Day-to-day you'll be required to:

• Diagnose faults and identifying effective repair solutions on HGV vehicles.
• Carry out servicing, maintenance and repairs to keep vehicles safe and operational.
• Replace vehicle components and ordering parts when required.
• Complete maintenance documentation and service records accurately.
• Work safely while maintaining high quality workshop and compliance standards.
• Experience servicing and repairing HGV vehicles.
• Strong fault diagnosis and problem-solving capability.
• Knowledge of HGV maintenance requirements and technical specifications.
• Experience working to high safety and quality standards.
• Ability to work effectively within a workshop environment.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role.

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a HGV Technician at Ruislip, near Uxbridge, Greater London. 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.

The role is based onsite at Ruislip, totalling 40 hours per week. In addition to a base salary of £42,637, you'll receive a shift allowance of £5,542.81, a discretionary annual bonus of £1,200, and the opportunity to earn overtime, paid at 1.5x Monday to Saturday and 2x on Sundays and Bank Holidays.

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

• 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 shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional FeesReservists 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

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