Mobile Repair Technician

Job Title: Mobile Repair Technician

Location: Ruislip, Middlesex

Compensation: £39,009.84 + Shift Allowance + MRT Allowance + On-Call Allowance Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF61840

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 Mobile Repair Technician at our South Ruislip site.

The role

As a Mobile Repair Technician, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will join our team delivering our vehicle and equipment contract with London Fire Brigade, in which deliver and ensure high levels of operations asset availability covering 460 vehicles across 39 categories and operational equipment, ranging from heavy and light vehicles to hydraulic rescue equipment.

Day-to-day, you’ll inspect, diagnose and repair any of the LFB’s assets at their operating or Training locations throughout greater London. This ensures that a process of continuous improvement is maintained in respect of improving the quality, reliability and thus availability of the current fleet, reducing the incidence of in-service defects, and, wherever practicable, eliminating the incidence of repeated defects.

• Diagnose faults and test vehicles utilising technical equipment and procedures and techniques, including road testing where deemed necessary.
• Ensure that the company vehicle is roadworthy at all times and any necessary repairs and scheduled maintenance events are planned in good time.
• Ensure the correct completion of all job-related documentation; effective post-rectification write-ups, Mobile Tranman processes and parts ordering.
• Identify all cases of recharge costs advising the MRT Controller and providing the appropriate supporting documentation and media
  
  
  

Please note that this position involves manual work. This could include lifting, bending, using tools or standing for extended periods of time and involves travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role.

This role is full time, 40 hours per week and requires regular travel across a range of internal and customer sites on a weekly basis.

Essential Experience Of The Mobile Repair Technician

• Proven experience as a qualified motor vehicle technician
• Hold a Full UK Driving License (Category B essential & Category C desirable)
• Good diagnostic skills
• Quality awareness
• Understanding of basic health & safety requirements
• Ability to read / comprehend technical instructions
  
  
  

Qualifications For The Mobile Repair Technician

• City & Guilds 1 & 2 in Motor Vehicle Studies or equivalent NVQ levels 2 & 3
  
  
  

We value difference and don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

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 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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
  
  
  

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 [email protected] 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: 12/03/25

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