General Maintenance Assistant

Job Title: General Maintenance Assistant
Location: Skelton, Cumbria
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF56744

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a General Maintenance Assistant at our Skelton Site.

The role
As a General Maintenance Assistant, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Babcock is a trusted provider of integrated solutions for global defence and security. We have a wide portfolio of best-in-class intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance solutions, communications, and weapons launch and handling solutions across all domains, integrating the best of industry to meet our customers’ needs.

Day to day, you’ll clean domestic and technical installations, equipment and site vehicles, as well as:

• The maintenance of domestic water and drainage systems.
• Order materials to maintain cost effective stock levels.
• General labouring and porterage including receipt, packing and dispatch of goods.
• Maintain technical and administration records and provide information as required.

This role is full time and based onsite at Skelton.

Essential experience of the General Maintenance Assistant:

• A comprehensive knowledge of current safe working practices and safety procedures
• Experience of general building maintenance and cleaning techniques.
• Basic Computer skills including email, Word and spreadsheets.

Qualifications for the General Maintenance Assistant:

• Possession of a current full UK driving licence.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve DV security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits

• 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.

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock International have 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.
If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. 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: 15/04/2024