Entry Level Paint Technician

Job Title: Entry Level Paint Technician
Location: Walsall, West Midlands
Compensation: £23,539.92 - £27,839.35 + £1000 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF56875

At Babcock we're working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Entry Level Paint Technician at our Walsall site.

The role
As an Entry Level Paint Technician, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll be part of a team who prepare and paint automotive components and complete vehicles.

Day-to-day, you'll prep of vehicle body parts, removing dents, repairing scratches, polishing, and refinishing along with accident repair work.

• Full vehicle colour changes and re-sprays
• Fault finding and rectification of paint defects
• Prepare components for final paint finish
• Bodyshop repairs

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

This role is full time, 40 hours per week and is based on site at Walsall. Hours of work are 7:00am - 4:00pm Monday - Thursday and 7:00am - 1:00pm Friday (early finish every Friday).
Essential experience of the Entry Level Paint Technician:

• Basic automotive, panel prep or bodyshop experience
• Basic understanding of mixing primers and paint
• Ability to work as part of a team
• Basic PC skills
• Excellent attention to detail

Qualifications for the Entry Level Paint Technician
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.

What we offer

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• 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
• A dynamic working environment.

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 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: 26/04/2024