Semi Skilled Operative

Job Title:                           Semi-Skilled Operative

Location:                           Wareham, Dorset

Compensation:                 £25,270 - £27,462 Dependent on Experience + Benefits

Role Type:                         Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                              SF69939

Play your part in maintaining and supporting critical defence vehicles.

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Semi-Skilled Operative at Bovington, near Wareham, Dorset.

The role

As a Semi-Skilled Operative, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be part of our Land sector team, supporting the workshop with essential tasks that keep our operations running. This is an exciting opportunity to strip, clean, repaint and overhaul vehicles and associated sub-assemblies, contributing to projects that make a real difference to national security and public infrastructure.

Day-to-day you’ll be required to:

• Carry out work to the required standard and specification as detailed on job cards
• Ensure compliance with customer requirements, regulations, and local processes
• Maintain tools and workshop equipment in good serviceable order
• Report any faults or issues promptly to your Supervisor
• Support the workshop team with additional duties as required

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

The role is based onsite at Bovington, and the set working times are 37 hours per week, Monday to Thursday.

Essential experience of the Semi-Skilled Operative

• Proven experience of working in a busy manufacturing environment

Qualifications for the Semi-Skilled Operative:

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 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 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.

Application Guidance

Thank you for your interest in this opportunity. Early applications are encouraged, as we may close the advert ahead of the closing date if we receive a high volume of strong applicants.

Closing date: 18/12/2025