Maintenance Assistant

Job Title: Maintenance Assistant 
Location: Bovington Camp, Wareham
Compensation: £25,787 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent 
Role ID: SF58717

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 Maintenance Assistant at our Bovington site.

The role

As a Maintenance Assistant, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. This role will support critical projects onsite by providing maintenance and administrative support.

Day-to-day, you’ll do anything from painting doors, scrubbing a bay, or installing TVs to supporting the Facilities Manager in writing business cases, processing reactive work requests and supporting project.  

• Work with Facilities Management (FM) staff and stakeholders to ensure FM services support the delivery of the core output of sites.
• Maintain workshop or site housekeeping standards, ensuring a clean safe working environment
• Control of contractors, ensure that contractors are managed in line with the Policy on the QMS and any deviations are highlighted, and activity halted.
• Deliver Work request that are allocated via the system in both planned maintenance and reactive maintenance areas.
• Use mechanical handling equipment to support the operational facilities management

This position involves manual work. This could include lifting, bending, using tools or standing for extended periods of time.

This role is full time 37 hours per week and is based at Bovington Camp in Wareham.

Agile working may be available to employees in some instances, applying the principles of fairness and consistency whilst ensuring that the overriding business needs can be appropriately met. We are happy to consider flexible working, including part-time, condensed hours, and job sharing. Please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview. 

Essential experience of the Maintenance Assistant  

• Experience in a maintenance or construction environment 
• Knowledge of basic IT programmes 

Qualifications for the Maintenance Assistant  

• Full UK Driving Licence is essential.
• Forklift Licence desirable 
• Asbestos awareness desirable 
• L8 Awareness desirable 

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
• Progression opportunities

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 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: 18/09/24