Vehicle Technician Supervisor

Job Title: Vehicle Technician Supervisor

Location: Ruislip, West London

Compensation: £40,000 + Benefits + Additional Allowances

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF70242

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 Vehicle Technician Supervisor at our RAF Northolt, Ruislip site.

The role

As a Vehicle Technician Supervisor, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You will be keeping mission-critical vehicles safe, reliable, and ready to support the RAF in delivering essential operations for the Armed Forces.

Day-to-day, you'll have the following responsibilities:

• Play a key role in the MTMS team, ensuring smooth delivery of scheduled servicing and maintenance tasks
• Perform effective maintenance and fault rectification on all Green Fleet and airfield specialist vehicles and equipment, following military and Babcock engineering policies
• Accurately record all maintenance activities, including modifications, technical instructions, and initiate equipment failure reports and warranty claims with the Senior Supervisor and dhere to engineering principles, procedures, and health & safety standards during all maintenance activities
• Manage spare parts requirements in line with military logistics policies
• Participate in the on-call technician roster, ensuring out-of-hours coverage for vehicle maintenance.

This role is full time working 37.5 hours per week and is based on site at RAF Northolt, Ruislip, West London.

Essential experience of the Vehicle Technician Supervisor:

• Proficient in using diagnostic equipment with a solid understanding of diagnostic processes
• Proven supervisory experience, with the ability to lead and support a team effectively.

Qualifications for the Vehicle Technician Supervisor:

• Level 3 Diploma in Heavy Vehicle Maintenance and Repair Principles or equivalent experience as an HGV/LGV Vehicle Technician
• Training in DC electrical systems, with practical knowledge of electrical diagnostics and repairs.
• Full, clean driving licence (Categories B and C.)

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 ).

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 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
• 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  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: 19/12/2025

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