Apprenticeship Coach
Tidworth, Salisbury, GB, SP9 7QD
Job Title: Motor Vehicle Skills Assessor
Location: Andover, Wiltshire + Fully Remote + Frequent Travel to Sites
Compensation: From £41,000 Subject to Qualifications and Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF75866
Help shape the next generation of skilled vehicle technicians
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Motor Vehicle Skills Assessor covering sites across the South West.
The role
As a Motor Vehicle Skills Assessor, you'll play a vital role in developing a skilled and capable workforce for the future. Working directly with apprentices in the workplace, you'll provide coaching, assessment and guidance that helps learners build their skills, achieve qualifications and progress confidently through their programmes. Your expertise will directly support operational excellence, customer satisfaction and long-term talent development across the defence sector.
Day-to-day you'll be required to:
- Deliver workplace coaching, assessment and tailored support to apprentices.
- Monitor, record and track learner progress while maintaining accurate and compliant documentation.
- Provide constructive feedback and training sessions to support successful programme completion and End Point Assessment readiness.
- Build strong relationships with learners, employers and internal stakeholders to enhance the learner experience.
- Maintain professional standards, compliance requirements and continuous professional development.
Please note that this position involves travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role.
The role is based remotely, with travel required to sites across the South West including Tidworth, Lyneham, Warminster, Colerne, Larkhill, Bulford and Wiltshire. The set working times are Monday to Friday, totalling 37 hours per week.
Essential experience of the Motor Vehicle Skills Assessor:
- Considerable experience as a qualified assessor.
- Strong background within a motor vehicle or relevant engineering environment.
- Good understanding of work-based learning programmes and apprenticeship delivery.
- Experience supporting learners to achieve qualifications and professional standards.
- Ability to build effective relationships with learners, employers and key stakeholders
Qualifications for the Motor Vehicle Skills Assessor:
- Certificate in Assessing Vocational Achievement (CAVA) or equivalent assessor qualification.
- Vehicle Mechanic qualification at Level 3 or above.
- GCSE Maths and English at Grade C/Level 4 or above, or equivalent
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) and Enhanced Disclosure Barring Service(EDBS) 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 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.
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: 22/09/2026
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