Electronics Technician
// Role Summary
As an Electronics Technician at Babcock, you will leverage your industry expertise to coach and assess apprentices, shaping the next generation of electronic professionals within the British Army. This role offers a unique opportunity to transition from hands-on work to a mentorship and development position, with full training provided.
// Key Responsibilities
- Coach, guide, and assess apprentices in electronic engineering.
- Deliver workplace-based learning and support learner progress.
- Ensure compliance with industry, ESFA, and Ofsted standards.
- Requires travel to various sites around Salisbury.
- Must hold GCSE Maths and English (grade C or above) and a Level 3 Electronics qualification.
// Role Specification
Ready to take your career in a new direction? At Babcock, we value the deep expertise that comes from hands-on experience and offer a unique opportunity to channel that knowledge into a rewarding new path. As an Electronics Technician, you’ll step away from the tools and into a role where you’ll shape the next generation of electronic apprentices, using your practical know-how to coach, guide, and assess learners across the British Army. If you're ready to make a meaningful impact while growing your own career, this could be the perfect next step. No prior training experience is required as we will look to develop you into the role.
The role
As an Electronics Technician you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll deliver workplace-based learning, coaching, and assessment to help apprentices complete their programmes successfully and meet industry, ESFA, and Ofsted requirements. This is a role where you’ll make a real difference, supporting the next generation of skilled professionals while strengthening Babcock’s reputation for excellence in vocational training.
Day-to-day you’ll be required to:
- Monitor and review learner progress in line with customer expectations
- Support, motivate, and coach learners through their apprenticeship programme
- Ensure compliance with awarding organisation, ESFA, and Ofsted requirements
- Deliver scheduled visits and complete all required documentation
- Provide portfolio-building advice and guidance
This role is full time, 37 hours per week and requires travel in and around Salisbury to our other sites alongside home working arrangements.
Essential experience of the Electronics Technician:
- Significant experience in an appropriate industry environment
Qualifications for the Electronics Technician:
- GCSE Maths and English (grade C or above or equivalent)
- Relevant industry-related qualification in Electronics (minimum Level 3)
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) + Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check 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 [email protected] 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: 23/07/2026