Apprenticeship Coach

We Served; Salisbury; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - GBP 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading global engineering company is seeking a Motor Vehicle Skills Assessor to coach and assess learners in the British Army across various sites. The role requires substantial experience as a qualified assessor with essential qualifications such as a Certificate in Assessing Vocational Achievement and a Level 3 Vehicle Mechanic Qualification. This position allows for remote work with necessary travel to multiple sites across the Southwest, offering a unique chance to impact national defense while pursuing a rewarding career.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Qualifications

• Considerable experience as a qualified assessor.
• Strong background in a relevant industry environment.
• Good understanding of work‑based learning programmes.

Responsibilities

• Visiting learners in their workplace to deliver coaching and assessment.
• Motivating and guiding apprentices through their qualification journey.
• Monitoring progress of learners.
• Advising learners on portfolio building.
• Recording and tracking learner progress.

Job description

Job Title: Motor Vehicle Skills Assessor

Location: Salisbury, Wiltshire + Fully Remote + Frequent Travel to Sites

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Company Car + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF71066

Drive the future of defence engineering

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 Southwest.

The role

As a Motor Vehicle Skills Assessor, you’ll step away from the tools and into a career that shapes the next generation of Army vehicle mechanics. You’ll use your hands‑on expertise to coach, guide and assess learners working across the British Army’s extensive fleet from quad bikes and generators to battle tanks and heavy artillery. This is a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact on national defence while advancing your own career in a dynamic and rewarding environment.

Day‑to‑day you’ll be:

• Visiting learners in their workplace to deliver coaching, assessment and support
• Motivating and guiding apprentices through their qualification journey
• Monitoring progress and ensuring timely completion of all programme components
• Advising learners on portfolio building and meeting programme requirements
• Recording and tracking learner progress in line with reporting processes

Please note that this position involves travel/working across a range of and customer sites, as a requirement of the role.

The role is based remotely, with travel required to sites across the Southwest including but not limited to Tidworth, Lyneham, Warminster, Colerne, Larkhill, Bulford and Wiltshire. The set working times are Monday to Friday, totalling 37 hours per week.

Essential experience of the Motor Vehicle Skills Assessor

• Considerable experience as a qualified assessor
• Strong background in a relevant industry environment
• Good understanding of work‑based learning programmes

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), Enhanced DBS, Child Barring Service and Adult Barring Service 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 [e-mail] 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: 10/02/2026