Avionics Technician
// Role Summary
Join Babcock as an Avionics Technician at RAF Valley, playing a crucial role in maintaining critical aircraft for military operations. This permanent, full-time position offers a chance to develop your technical expertise in a vital defence engineering environment.
// Key Responsibilities
- Perform detailed maintenance, inspections, diagnostics, and repairs on aircraft avionics systems.
- Ensure aircraft remain safe, compliant, and mission-ready in a depth maintenance setting.
- Diagnose faults, carry out repairs, modifications, and functional testing of avionics equipment.
- Support compliance activities including tooling control and maintenance documentation.
- Requires an Engineering Apprenticeship (Aeronautical or military equivalent) and relevant qualifications (e.g., C&G 2675, NVQ Level 3).
// Role Specification
At Babcock, we are looking for an Avionics Technician to join our team at RAF Valley, near Holyhead, Anglesey. This role is integral to ensuring critical aircraft are mission-ready, contributing to a safe and secure world.
The Role
As an Avionics Technician, you will be responsible for the detailed maintenance, inspections, diagnostics, and repairs of aircraft systems and components within a depth maintenance environment. Your work will directly contribute to ensuring aircraft safety, compliance, and readiness for critical missions. This is an excellent opportunity to advance your technical skills in a specialized engineering field while supporting national defence and security.
Your Responsibilities
- Performing scheduled and unscheduled maintenance activities on aircraft and aircraft components.
- Diagnosing faults, carrying out repairs, modifications, and functional testing of avionics systems and equipment.
- Ensuring maintenance tasks are completed safely, accurately, and in line with required schedules and procedures.
- Supporting compliance activities including tooling control, equipment checks, and maintenance documentation.
- Maintaining technical competence through on-the-job training and continuous professional development.
This full-time, permanent role is based on-site at RAF Valley, Anglesey, working 37.5 hours per week.
Essential Experience
- Demonstrated engineering knowledge and practical technical skills.
- Experience contributing to the maintenance, operation, manufacture, or development of engineering systems, equipment, or services.
- Ability to take personal responsibility and accountability for delivering high-quality work.
- Proficiency in using computer systems within an engineering or technical environment.
- Skills in building effective relationships and engaging with a range of stakeholders.
Qualifications
- Completion of an Engineering Apprenticeship, ideally in Aeronautical Engineering, or a military equivalent apprenticeship/qualification.
- Minimum City & Guilds 2675 Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance, or NVQ Level 3 in an aeronautical-related discipline.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role.
What We Offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Special paid leave for reservists in the armed forces
- Holiday Trading opportunity
- ‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering
Babcock is a global FTSE 100 organisation committed to making a difference. Join us and contribute to essential products and services for national security and public infrastructure. We offer meaningful careers and respect work-life balance, embodying our philosophy of 'lifetime engineering'.
We are a disability confident committed employer and welcome applications from all candidates. Reasonable adjustments can be discussed during the application and selection stages. We are happy to discuss flexible working patterns.