Equipment Operative

Job Title: Equipment Operative
Location: Bardon
Compensation: £24,000
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF51535

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 Equipment Operative at our Bardon site.

The role

As an Equipment Operative, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll have the opportunity to maintain and service fire and rescue equipment.

Day to day, you’ll carry out servicing, cleaning and maintenance on emergency service equipment; this could be search cameras, working at height equipment and various other pieces of fire and rescue equipment. You’ll also carry out testing high volume hoses, infantry checks, replenishment of stock and completing paperwork / updating asset data management system.

This can often be a physically demanding role, with some heavy lifting involved, full training will be provided to include manual handling.

• Carry out basic day-to-day servicing, cleaning and maintenance duties on ND equipment as instructed
• Support your area colleague and area supervisor/manager maintain and achieve set productivity targets
• Assist in the stowage of vehicles, modules, equipment and consumable stores
• Accurately complete inventory checks within required time frames
• Ensure all service documents are accurately completed and submit within the required time frames

Essential experience of the Equipment Operative

• Attention to detail
• Good work ethic
• Labouring or a maintenance background would be beneficial but not essential
• FLT would be beneficial, but it would be 10% of the job only

This is a full time role and will be based on site at Bardon.

You will work 40 hours per week on average, 5 days week one and 4 days a week two.

Week 1: Monday-Thursday. 7-4.30pm. and Friday 7-3.30pm
Week 2: Mon-Thurs 7-4.30pm

The successful candidate must be able to achieve Basline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) security clearance level 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 ten 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

For the full extensive Benefits package please visit our Careers pages

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: 14/06/23

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