HGV Class C Driver

Location: Leicester, GB, LE67 1LD

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Job Title: HGV Class C Driver

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF72858

Keeping frontline emergency services moving - safely, reliably, nationally

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an HGV Class C Driver at Bardon, near Coalville, Leicestershire.

The role

As an HGV Class C Driver, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You'll sit at the heart of a nationally significant operation, ensuring the safe, timely and compliant movement of specialist emergency response vehicles and equipment across the UK. You'll work in a trusted, close knit team where safety, integrity and pride in what we do come first.

This is more than a driving role. It's a career where your reliability, professionalism and commitment directly support public safety.

• Delivering and collecting New Dimensions HGV and non HGV vehicles nationwide in line with scheduled plans
• Maintaining vehicles, tools and working areas to a clean, safe and compliant standard
• Completing basic diagnostics, including tachograph checks, and ensuring accurate documentation
• Recording and reporting work progress clearly while communicating effectively with supervisors
• Representing Babcock professionally at Fire and Rescue Service sites, always promoting safety and trust

This position involves travel/working across a range of internal and customer sites, as a requirement of the role.

This is a full time, 40 hour per week role, based on site at Bardon.

Set working times are 07:30-16:30, with overtime, call out and occasional overnight stays required (hotel provided). Travel to other Babcock and customer sites across the UK will be expected.

Essential experience of the HGV Class C Driver:

• Proven experience driving HGV Class C vehicles
• Confidence operating vehicles safely across long distances and varied environments
• Experience using vehicle compliance processes and tachograph systems
• A strong safety first mindset with attention to detail
• Experience representing an organisation professionally with customers or partners

Qualifications for the HGV Class C Driver:

• Full UK manual driving licence
• HGV Class C licence (Manual or Auto)
• Valid Driver Certificate of Professional Competence

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 ().

What we offer

• 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 - 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' - allows employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) for volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity

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.