Job Title: Aerospace Design Engineer
Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Compensation: Up to £50,000 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF67388
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Aerospace Design Engineer at our Staverton, Gloucestershire site.
The role
As an Aerospace Design Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will be creating innovative mechanical parts, assemblies, and installation designs using SolidWorks, ensuring full compliance with our Design Office Handbook, certification standards, and customer requirements.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
- Provide technical support to production and installation engineers on design-related matters.
- Conduct aircraft surveys to identify and define optimal design solutions.
- Perform and document analysis and testing to validate designs and ensure quality.
This role is full time working 40 hours per week and is based on site at Gloucestershire Airport, Gloucestershire.
Essential experience of the Aerospace Design Engineer:
- Proven experience in aviation design environments, with a strong understanding of industry standards.
- Expertise in mechanical and/or electrical design, including detailed drawings and comprehensive engineering reports.
- Solid knowledge of aerospace regulations or experience within other highly regulated sectors (e.g., rail, nuclear).
- Proficient in CAD tools (training on our specific systems will be provided).
- Advanced skills in Microsoft Office applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, etc.).
Qualifications for the Aerospace Design Engineer:
Degree in a relevant engineering discipline or equivalent professional experience in place of a degree.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / Security Check (SC) 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 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 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
- Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has 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.
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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 08/12/2025
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