Job Title: Aircraft Technician
Location: Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
Compensation: £34,016.66 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72900
Help keep critical aviation operations flying safely
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Aircraft Technician at MOD St Athan, near Barry in the Vale of Glamorgan.
As an Aircraft Technician, you’ll play a key role in supporting daily flying operations by delivering high‑quality aircraft maintenance, servicing and ground handling duties. Working as part of our Aviation business, you’ll contribute to the safe preparation, inspection and operation of aircraft to meet customer expectations and contractual requirements. This role offers the opportunity to work within a highly skilled engineering team in a fast‑paced and safety‑critical environment.
Day-to-day, you will be:
- Preparing aircraft for daily flying, including ground handling, servicing and replenishment of fuel and oil.
- Supporting scheduled and corrective maintenance tasks under the direction of a Licensed Aircraft Engineer.
- Carrying out inspections, aircraft movement activities and other engineering-related tasks to maintain aircraft readiness.
- Completing accurate documentation, ensuring compliance with safety, maintenance and airfield driving standards.
- Collaborating with engineers, inspectors and operational teams to support safe and efficient flying operations.
This is a full‑time, onsite role working 40 hours per week, with shift patterns that may vary to meet operational requirements, including weekends.
Essential experience of the Aircraft Technician:
- Ability to interpret and understand technical engineering data.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
- Experience in an aircraft maintenance or similar technical environment, or recently qualified and eager to develop further.
Qualifications for the Aircraft Technician:
- Recognised aircraft apprenticeship, military aircraft engineering background or NVQ Level 3 (or equivalent).
- Knowledge of aircraft maintenance engineering procedures.
- Full driving licence.
- Ability to meet Colour Perception Test 2 requirements for airfield operations.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service Check (EDBS) / Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) 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.
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 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: 16/04/2026
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