Location:
Holyhead, GB, LL65 3NY
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Job Title: Fleet Maintenance Manager
Location: Isle of Anglesey, Wales
Compensation: £36,000 - £40,000 Dependent on Experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74326
Lead critical fleet operations that keep defence moving
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Fleet Maintenance Manager at RAF Valley, near Holyhead, Anglesey.
The role
As a Fleet Maintenance Manager, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring the operational readiness and safety of a specialist vehicle fleet supporting defence operations. Leading a skilled team of technicians, you’ll oversee maintenance delivery, drive compliance, and ensure assets are available when they’re needed most.
This is an exciting opportunity to combine hands-on engineering leadership with operational management in a highly regulated and purpose-driven environment, where your work directly contributes to national security.
Day-to-day, you will be:
Leading and managing a team of technicians to deliver servicing, repairs, and preventative maintenance
Planning and coordinating all fleet maintenance activities to maximise vehicle availability
Overseeing diagnostics, fault identification, and repair decision-making
Managing workshop assets, tooling, and spare parts inventory
Ensuring compliance with safety, environmental, and regulatory standards.
This is a full-time role working 39 hours per week, based on site at RAF Valley.
Essential experience of the Fleet Maintenance Manager:
Experience working within or alongside a military or highly regulated workshop environment
Strong knowledge of HGV maintenance operations and fleet management systems
Understanding of ADR regulations and specialist vehicles such as fuel bowsers
Experience producing and implementing risk assessments and COSHH documentation
Proven experience in procurement, supply chain processes, or local purchasing.
Qualifications for the Fleet Maintenance Manager:
NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent) in a Mechanical or Electrical discipline
Valid UK HGV driving licence (Category C or C+E)
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (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. 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 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 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’ 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
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 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: 02/07/2026
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