HGV Mechanic - Examiner
16 days ago
Newcastle upon Tyne
Select how often (in days) to receive an alert: Location: Newcastle, GB, NE15 0RF Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite • Job Title: HGV Mechanic - Examiner, • Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, Northumberland, • Compensation: Up to £32,240 Dependent on Experience + Benefits, • Role Type: Full time / Permanent As an HGV Mechanic - Examiner, you’ll be at the heart of our defence engineering operations, ensuring military vehicles and equipment are mission ready undertaking the servicing, repair, maintenance and Inspection of Military vehicles, including diagnostic duties. This is a hands‑on role where your technical expertise will directly support UK defence capability. You’ll be part of a close‑knit team maintaining and repairing a wide range of vehicles and electrical systems, helping to keep our armed forces mobile, safe and effective. Please note that this position involves manual work. This could include lifting, bending, using tools or standing for extended periods of time. The successful candidate will be required to pass a targeted medical questionnaire and/or medical examination as a condition of employment for this role. The role is based onsite at Albemarle Barracks, and the set working times are Monday to Thursday, totalling 37 hours per week. There is no mandatory overtime, night shift, or weekend working. • Diagnosing, inspecting and assessing vehicles and mechanical or electrical equipment, • Ensuring all transactions are performed in accordance with current ERP processes, • Completing documentation and test certificates to current standards, • Completing servicing, repairs, maintenance and overhauls to required standards, • Ensuring correct use of tools, material and equipment, and returning unused or faulty items, • HGV experience, • Previous experience within a similar role or military setting, • Holds a valid UK driving licence, including Category C, • Minimum of 3 years trade experience, as per DVSA mandatory requirement, • Completed relevant technical or vocational qualification equivalent to NQF Level 3 (Advanced apprenticeship, level 3 NVQ) in Heavy Vehicles 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 (). • 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. 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 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. Job Segment: Electrical, Engineer, ERP, Engineering, Technology #J-18808-Ljbffr