About the job

Job summary

The Land Warfare Centre is looking for a motivated and driven individual to join the Equipment 
Support Team. This is an exciting opportunity to become a member of a small team based at 
Warminster. This role will involve working closely with all the Operational Training Delivery 
Schools that provide trade specific training to Army personnel. As a key team member working 
alongside other civilians and military personnel, you will gain valuable insight into a wide range of 
military equipment and how it is utilised in delivering training, playing a pivotal role in ensuring 
that the ‘right’ equipment is repaired, maintained and available to Trainees. 

This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.

Job description

Your main purpose will be as the interface between the Training Schools, Equipment Support elements -MoD primary contracted Equipment Support provider – Babcock Defence Support Group (BDSG), and others i.e. Aspire, Holdfast. Scrutiny, processing and monitoring of work submissions is pivotal to the role. This covers a wide array of the British Army Land Equipment’s and weapon systems utilised within the UK and abroad.

You will need to scrutinise all work task submissions prior to processing, submitting and monitoring through to closure whilst ensuring the originating units are kept informed of progress or delays. As part of this you will need to build good working relationships with all stakeholders involved. This is to ensure safe legislatively compliant equipment is delivered to the hands of the user. Regular interface with Field Army i.e meetings around this contract will be required where you will be expected to report on issues arising or portray good news stories.

Your ability to process, distribute and understand the implications of any Safety Notices or Engineering Notices received from the higher authority levels is key.

Control of the National Roadside Recovery and Repair Contract on behalf of LWC forms part of this role, involving issuing of authority to requesting units.

This role will require travel to Land Warfare Centre schools which are distributed across the country and potentially to those abroad. Proactive engagement with the user communities will enhance business outputs. 

Does this sound of interest to you? We actively encourage and welcome any enquiries about the post.

Person specification

We are looking for someone that has good information processing skills and who can change priorities at short notice. It is key that the individual has an automotive engineering background and a good knowledge of or keen interest in modern military Land Equipment.

Applicants need to be proficient in the use of the Microsoft Office suite. Proficiency in additional specialist MoD software applications will be required but training will be provided.

The position holder should be a great teammate, with strong communication skills to engage effectively and establish strong links across the Training Schools and with all external agencies.

Candidates should list all proven experience in their Personal Statement as part of their application, including evidence of Awareness Levels of System Safety and In-Service Engineering Competencies.

Candidates must be willing to work toward achieving recognition / membership of the Engineering Council in a professional capacity. 

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £35,290, Ministry of Defence contributes £9,528 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.

At application you will be assessed against the following:

• Behaviours: Leadership
• Experience: Statement of Suitability (500 Words)
• Technical: System Safety

At interview you will be assessed against the above along with the following behaviours:

• Behaviours: Seeing the Big Picture
• Working Together
• Managing a Quality Service
• Technical -  System Safety – Awareness Level

Technical - Eng Competencies - Parts 4.1 to 4.4 Awareness Level

The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity. There is a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. If you need to advise us that you need additional help or reasonable adjustments for the recruitment process, please contact: DBSCivPers-Resourcingteam3@mod.gov.uk 

As a result of the changes to the UK immigration rules which came into effect on 1 January 2021, the Ministry of Defence will only offer sponsorship for a skilled worker visa under the points based system, where a role has been deemed to be business critical.

The role currently being advertised has not been assessed as business critical and is therefore NOT open to applications from those who will require sponsorship under the points based system. Should you apply for this role and be found to require sponsorship, your application will be rejected and any provisional offer of employment withdrawn.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

See our vetting charter (opens in a new window). People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

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Working for the Civil Service

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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.