Specialist Fire Vehicle Operator

Job Title:                     Specialist Fire Vehicle Operator

Location:                     London, Greater London

Compensation:           £43,143,17 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent 

Role ID:                        SF71701

Shape the Future of Emergency Response Training

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Specialist Fire Vehicle Operator at sites across London.

The role

As a Specialist Fire Vehicle Operator, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Your work will help ensure that London’s firefighters can respond quickly, safely, and effectively making a direct impact on operational readiness and community protection. This role also offers exceptional professional development, expanding your expertise in specialist vehicles, training delivery, and assessment methods within an industry that is mission-led, people-centred, and continuously innovating.

Day-to-day you’ll be required to:

• Deliver specialist practical and classroom-based vehicle equipment training, including operation of emergency-service vehicles such as aerial ladders.
• Assess learner competence, provide constructive feedback and maintain accurate training records.
• Ensure all training is delivered safely and professionally in line with approved course materials, risk assessments, safety policies and safeguarding expectations.
• Identify and escalate learner welfare concerns where appropriate.
• Act as a subject-matter expert, supporting course development and raising improvement opportunities.

Please note that the successful candidate will be required to pass a targeted medical questionnaire and/or medical examination as a condition of employment for this role.

This is a full-time position working 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, based across London. Travel to different Babcock and customer sites around London will be expected.

Salary starts at £43,143.17 and after successful completion of probation rises to £44,941.

Essential experience of the Specialist Fire Vehicle Operator:

• Fire-sector specialist vehicle experience and knowledge.
• Proficiency in MS Office applications (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) and tablet-based reporting.
• Experience using systems and digital tools to deliver outputs effectively.
• Experience working with aerial ladders, turntable ladders or hydraulic platforms is desirable.

Qualifications for the Specialist Fire Vehicle Operator:

• DVSA Category C LGV Licence.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) 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 26,000 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: 12/03/2025