Trainee Driver
Location:
Glasgow, GB, G73 1AP
Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite
Job Title: Trainee Driver
Location: Rutherglen, Lanarkshire
Compensation: £43,040 which is inclusive of a 33% roster premium
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF63849
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Trainee Driver at our Rutherglen site.
The role
As a Trainee Driver, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. The Trainee Driver will operate and maintain On Track Machines under supervision, progressing through training to achieve full certification and support safe, efficient rail maintenance operations.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
- Drive and/or Operate On Track Machines (OTMs) for which certification of competence has been issued on achieving the required standards.
- Conduct servicing, cleaning, fuelling and minor repairs of On Track Machines (OTMs) as directed and required.
- Arrange to complete and return all associated paperwork. This includes Phires Forms, signing of logbooks and other documentation as required.
- Comply with all applicable standards, procedures, best practices and observe all local conditions where required.
- Undergo all training and assessments as required.
This role is full time and based onsite at Rutherglen.
Essential experience of the Trainee Driver:
- Have good knowledge of OTM operation.
- Able to develop or have good knowledge of track mechanised maintenance.
Qualifications for the Trainee Driver:
- Able to meet the requirements of Psychometric assessment.
- Able to meet the required train driver’s medical standards.
Security Clearance
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
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has 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.
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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 31/07/2025
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