Survival Equipment Supervisor
// Role Summary
Join Babcock as a Survival Equipment Supervisor at RAF Valley, ensuring aircrew readiness through expert maintenance and repair of critical survival equipment. This role offers a chance to make a real difference in frontline pilot training.
// Key Responsibilities
- Supervise and conduct maintenance on essential aircrew survival equipment.
- Ensure highest standards of safety, airworthiness, and compliance.
- Support operational readiness within a skilled aviation engineering team.
- Resolve equipment faults, perform repairs, and component replacements.
- Must be able to achieve and maintain BPSS and ITAR security clearance.
// Role Specification
About the Role
Help keep aircrew mission-ready and make a real difference to frontline pilot training. At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Survival Equipment Supervisor at RAF Valley, near Holyhead, Anglesey.
This is an exciting opportunity to join our Aviation business, supporting the maintenance and serviceability of critical aircrew survival equipment. Your expertise will help ensure pilots have the equipment they need to train safely and effectively, directly contributing to the development of the next generation of frontline aircrew. If you're looking for a career where your work has purpose, visibility, and impact, this role offers the opportunity to grow your skills while supporting vital national capability.
The Role
As a Survival Equipment Supervisor, you'll supervise and undertake maintenance activities on essential survival and aircrew equipment, ensuring the highest standards of safety, airworthiness, and compliance are maintained. Working within a highly skilled aviation engineering team, you'll play a key role in supporting operational readiness while developing your leadership and technical expertise within a world-class defence and aerospace organisation.
What You'll Do Day-to-Day
- Conduct maintenance, inspection, and diagnostic activities on survival and aircrew equipment assemblies.
- Resolve equipment faults, carrying out repairs, modifications, and component replacements.
- Perform functional testing to ensure equipment meets operational and regulatory requirements.
- Ensure all work is completed in accordance with approved technical documentation and maintenance procedures.
- Carry out inspections, configuration management activities, and critical compliance checks.
This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and is based on site at RAF Valley.
Essential Experience
- Experience working on survival equipment or comparable aircraft systems.
- Experience in a Survival Equipment Technician, aviation engineering, or similar technical role.
- Strong fault-finding, diagnostic, and analytical skills.
- Experience maintaining equipment in a regulated engineering environment.
- Ability to work safely, accurately, and to defined technical standards.
Qualifications
- Formal engineering training in RAF Trade Group 13 or equivalent.
- Trade Qualified Authorisations in QSEAC or AVMEDSE.
- Completion of an Engineering Apprenticeship, or equivalent, ideally in Aeronautical Engineering.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) AND ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations) 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.