Avionics Engineer

About the job

Job Title: Avionics Engineer
Location: Staverton Airport, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Compensation: £64,769 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF54748

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 Avionics Engineer at our Staverton Airport, Cheltenham site.

The role
As a Avionics Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. You will be part of the team providing vital rotary aircraft maintenance services to our customers including the Police and Air Ambulance Services.

Day to day, you'll repair and maintain rotary aircraft avionic systems.

• Repair / maintain aircraft avionic systems
• Electrical continuity checks IAW electrical engineering drawings
• Electrical wiring fault finding and rectification
• Assist in line aircraft avionic system checks/tests and repairs

This role is full time and permanent at 40 hours per week and will be based at Staverton Airport. This role includes weekend work (2 weekends within a 28 day period) and runs of a rota-based system, this means you will have equal time on and off. This typically works as follows, 4 on, 4 off, 6 on and 6 off, 4 on. There is a requirement to travel to multiple locations as part of the role to repair and check aircrafts at our customer sites.

Essential experience of the Avionics Engineer:

• Ability to repair / maintain aircraft avionic systems
• Ability to read and understand electrical engineering drawings
• A good working knowledge of the regulations, requirements and standards associated with electrical loom manufacture and installation
• An understanding of avionics system integration

Qualifications for the Avionics Engineer:

• Preference to hold a valid CAA part 66 B2 AML preferred with Ec-135 and H145 type ratings.
• Clean valid UK driving licence

We value difference and don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve SC and NPV security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits

• Retention bonus scheme paid every 2 years
• Private Health Care
• Generous holiday allowance, 25 days plus bank holidays
• 6% Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• 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 most 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

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock International have 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.

If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. 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.