About this role
Job Title: Motor Vehicle Skills Assessor Location: Salisbury, Wiltshire + Fully Remote + Frequent Travel to Sites Compensation: £41,000 + Benefits Role Type: Full time / Permanent Role ID: SF77324 Help Shape the Next Generation of Defence Engineering Talent At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Motor Vehicle Skills Assessor covering sites across the South. This is a rewarding opportunity to combine your technical motor vehicle expertise with coaching, mentoring and assessment.
You'll play a vital role in developing skilled apprentices, helping them build the knowledge, competence and confidence needed to succeed in their careers. Your work will directly support operational capability, customer satisfaction and the development of future engineering talent across the defence sector. The role As a Motor Vehicle Skills Assessor, you'll work closely with apprentices and employers, providing high-quality coaching and assessment that supports learners through every stage of their programme.
This is a field-based role where you'll make a genuine difference by helping individuals achieve recognised qualifications while ensuring programmes meet industry and regulatory standards. You'll gain exposure to a wide range of defence engineering environments while contributing to a business that invests heavily in skills development and lifelong learning.
- Day-to-day, you’ll be required to: Delivering workplace coaching, assessment and tailored learner support.
- Planning, recording and monitoring learner progress to ensure programme compliance.
- Providing feedback, guidance and training to help learners build portfolios and prepare for End Point Assessment.
- Building strong relationships with learners, employers and internal stakeholders to support successful outcomes.
- Maintaining quality, safeguarding, health and safety and compliance standards while meeting performance objectives.
- This role is full time, 37 hours per week.
- There is a requirement to travel to locations including but not limited to Tidworth, Lyneham, Warminster, Colerne, Larkhill, Bulford and Wiltshire.
- Essential experience of the Motor Vehicle Skills Assessor Considerable experience working as a qualified assessor.
- Strong experience within a motor vehicle, automotive or related engineering environment.
- Good understanding of work-based learning programmes and apprenticeship delivery.
- Experience supporting learners to achieve qualifications and workplace competence.
- Ability to build effective relationships with learners, employers and stakeholders.
- Qualifications for the Motor Vehicle Skills Assessor Certificate in Assessing Vocational Achievement (or equivalent) GCSE grade C or above (or equivalent) in Maths and English Vehicle Mechanic Level 3 Qualification (minimum Level 3) Security Clearance The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) / Electronic Disclosure and Barring Service (EBS) 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 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.
- Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met.
- A dynamic working environment with excellent opportunities for professional development and career progression.
- Babcock We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 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 [email protected] 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: 26/11/2026