Driver

Job Title: Driver

Location: Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire

Compensation: £30,211.88 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF72533

Keep vital operations moving every day

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Driver at RAF Halton, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.

The role

As a Driver, you'll play a key role in supporting Royal Air Force operations by ensuring personnel, equipment and vehicles are transported safely, efficiently and professionally. Working as part of a dedicated Transport Services team, you'll operate a variety of vehicles while helping to keep day-to-day activities running smoothly across the station.

Day-to-day you'll be required to:

• Driving a range of Passenger Carrying Vehicles and Large Goods Vehicles safely and professionally
• Conducting vehicle checks and ensuring vehicles are roadworthy, well-maintained and clean before and after use
• Completing all required documentation accurately, including daily inspections and tachograph records
• Reporting vehicle defects promptly and in line with established procedures
• Supporting a variety of transport tasks, including transporting senior stakeholders and operational personnel
  
  
  

This role is full time, working an average of 39 hours per week and is based on site at RAF Halton. Shift patterns for this role are:

• Earlies: 06:00–13:30 (Mon–Fri)
• Lates: 13:00–20:30 (Mon–Fri)
• Days:
• 08:00–17:00 (Mon–Thurs), 08:00–16:00 (Fri)
• 07:30–16:30 (Mon–Thurs), 07:30–15:30 (Fri)
• Weekend Duty: One in every 8 weeks (06:30–18:30), with weekday time off provided.
  
  

Applicants must live within 1 hour of RAF Halton.

Essential experience of the Driver:

• Eligible to obtain a Passenger Carrying Vehicle (PCV) licence.
  
  
  

Qualifications for the Driver:

• Valid UK Passenger Carrying Vehicle (PCV) licence (Category D). (Desirable)
• Training will be provided to support the successful candidate in gaining a Passenger Carrying Vehicle (PCV) licence.
  
  
  

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain 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 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 [email protected] 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: 24/11/2026

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