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Job Title: Facilities Management Technician
Location: Ashchurch, Tewkesbury
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF75674
Help Keep Critical Infrastructure Running Safely and Efficiently
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Facilities Management Technician at Ashchurch, near Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.
The role
As a Facilities Management Technician, you'll play a key role in ensuring the safe, efficient, and reliable operation of facilities that support important defence and security programmes. Working within our Facilities Management team, you'll help maintain buildings, infrastructure, and essential systems that enable our people to deliver critical work every day.
This is an exciting opportunity to bring your technical maintenance expertise to a purpose-driven organisation where your work has a visible impact. You'll contribute to building safety, operational resilience, regulatory compliance, and the overall workplace experience, while developing your skills within a leading defence, aerospace, and engineering business.
Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:
Deliver Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM), carrying out scheduled inspections, servicing, and maintenance tasks across building fabric, mechanical, electrical, and safety systems to ensure reliability and minimise downtime
Respond to reactive maintenance issues, diagnosing faults promptly and complete repairs efficiently to maintain safe, fully operational facilities, escalating complex issues where necessary.
Support statutory compliance, assisting with the completion of statutory inspections, testing, and servicing (e.g., fire safety systems, water hygiene, electrical checks) and ensure accurate logs and documentation are maintained.
First-line repairs and minor works, undertaking minor repairs, adjustments, and small improvement and project works to maintain high standards of building condition and functionality.
Contractor coordination, supporting the supervision and coordination of external contractors on-site, providing escort and ensuring work is completed safely, to specification, and in line with agreed procedures.
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and is based on site at Ashchurch. Working times are between 8:00am and 4:30pm, with flexibility available.
Essential experience of the Facilities Management Technician
Proven experience in facilities or building maintenance.
Strong understanding of health and safety legislation (e.g., COSHH, LOLER, PUWER).
Ability to diagnose and resolve technical issues across multiple systems.
Good communication and teamwork skills.
IT literacy for using maintenance management systems (e.g., CAFM).
Qualifications for the Facilities Management Technician
NVQ Level 2 or 3 in Building Services, Electrical, Mechanical, or equivalent experience.
Certifications such as PAT Testing, Working at Height, or First Aid (desirable).
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve Developed Vetting (DV) security clearance for this role. Must be Sole UK National.
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
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: 04/09/2026
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