Job Title: Driver
Location: Albrighton, West Midlands
Compensation: £27,725.76
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF56014
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 RAF Cosford site.
The role
As a Driver, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Ensuring the provision of professional driving for all nominated tasks as required to meet or exceed customer and company expectations.
Day to day, you’ll assist in the ground movement of aircrafts and be a key part in our flight-line operations, as well as:
- Undertaking any driving duties as required by the contract, fuel bowser driving on shift to support flying operations, daily/weekly and any other maintenance and checks required to ensure vehicle safety and compliance to support flying operations, control all vehicle related administration within Babcock guidelines, and ensure all personal licences, medicals and competencies are maintained.
- Preparing aircrafts for the upcoming days flying, conducting see-in and see-off procedures as well as being authorised to carry out fuel and oil replenishment on the aircraft.
- Once authorised you’ll also be undertaking daily maintenance checks on the company owned aircraft, carrying out pre-use checks and be responsible for minor scheduled maintenance (A Check) on company owned Ground Support Equipment (GSE).
- There will be some general duties as required, including (but not limited to), aircraft cleaning, housekeeping and other responsibilities as allocated by the Senior Driver or Site Operations Manager.
This role is full time and based onsite at RAF Cosford, however, the company may, on occasion, ask you to deploy temporarily to other sites or support detachments at other operating locations.
Essential experience of the Driver:
- Clean Driving Licence.
- Working knowledge of RAF/DVSA/DGSA and Babcock Transport administration.
- Working knowledge of Transport & Driver legal requirements.
- Ability to demonstrate practical and theoretical standards.
- Meet eye colour vision of CP2/CP3 for airfield airside operations.
Qualifications for the Driver:
- PSV, LGV, & ADR Qualified (candidates who do not hold all licenses may still be considered).
The successful candidate must be able to achieve the minimum of a baseline security check security clearance for this role.
Our Benefits
- Generous holiday allowance
- Contributory Pension scheme, with life assurance
- 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 most 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.
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock International have 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.
If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. 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: 29/02/2024
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