Licensed Aircraft Engineer

About the job

Job Title: Licensed Aircraft Engineer
Location: RAF Yeovilton
Compensation: £41,209
Role Type: Full time
Role ID: SF: 50628

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 Licensed Aircraft Engineer at our RAF Yeovilton site.

The role:

As a Licensed Aircraft Engineer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Delivering airworthy and serviceable aircraft to our customer in a fast paced, challenging and real-life operational setting critical to future defence output.

Day to day, you'll:

• Be responsible, alongside a team of mechanical and avionic LAE's for the generation and release to service of serviceable and safe aircraft in accordance with civilian legislation/regulation and in line with Babcock company approvals.
• You will help to drive the delivery of the flying activities at RNAS Yeovilton alongside your Babcock and Military colleagues by taking a 'Whole Force' approach to our activities and ensuring that Babcock's excellent safety and delivery reputation is always maintained.

Essential experience of the Licensed Aircraft Engineer:

• Specific technical knowledge
• Sound understanding of partnering and alliance between customer and contract
• Part 66, B1.2 Aircraft Maintenance Licence.
• Supervisory experience in a Civil/Military Aviation environment
• Ability to demonstrate practical and theoretical standards required
• Driving Licence
• Knowledge of MOD Engineering procedures/documentation

This role is full time and is based on site at RAF Yeovilton however you may on occasion be asked to deploy to other sites or support detachments at other operating locations.

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

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• 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 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

For the full extensive Benefits package please visit our Careers pages.

Babcock International

For over 130 years 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.

Closing date: 05/05/2023