Driver

Job Title:                        Driver

Location:                        Chatham, Kent

Compensation:              £26,881.50 - £29,842.64 Dependent on Licences Held+ Benefits

Role Type:                      Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                          SF73738

 

Keep people moving. Support national defence. Build a career that matters

 

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 Driver at our Chatham site.

 

The role

As a Driver, you’ll take on a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll provide essential transport services, driving a variety of military and civilian vehicles on and off road. This is your opportunity to support military operations and make a real impact while developing your skills in a dynamic environment.

 

Day to day, you’ll be:

• Driving military personnel and equipment around Royal School of Military Engineering (RSME) Chatham sites, mainly via coach.
• Transporting personnel to locations across the UK on some occasions
• Driving military and commercial vehicles that you are trained to operate
• Carrying out standard maintenance on a wide range of military vehicles (training provided).
• Recording and maintaining training compliance.

 

This role is full time working 37 hours per week and is based on site at Brompton Barracks, Chatham.

 

Essential experience of the Driver:

• Customer focused with the ability to build positive working relationships.

 

Qualifications for the Driver:

• Coach / D licence is essential

 

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) 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 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

 

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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: 01/06/2026