Job Title: Base Maintenance and Installations Coordinator
Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Compensation: £82,370.00 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72783
Lead critical aviation maintenance operations with Babcock
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Base Maintenance and Installations Coordinator at Gloucestershire Airport in Staverton, near Cheltenham.
As a Base Maintenance and Installations Coordinator, you will play a central leadership role within our Aviation business, ensuring the safe, efficient and compliant delivery of Base Maintenance, Component Workshop and Aircraft Installations activity. You will drive operational planning, resource management and maintenance coordination to ensure aircraft are available, maintained to the highest standards and fully compliant with all regulatory requirements.
Day-to-day, you will be:
- Leading the planning, oversight and execution of Base Maintenance, installations and workshop activity, ensuring all work meets required procedures and regulatory standards.
- Managing resource levels and rosters to ensure appropriate staffing, authorisations, materials and equipment are in place for both scheduled and emergent maintenance tasks.
- Providing local management of hangars, equipment and facilities through the Hangar Support Supervisor, ensuring a professional, safe and compliant working environment.
- Building strong working relationships with key operational stakeholders including engineering, airworthiness, logistics, procurement, projects, compliance and ground operations teams.
- Supporting the Head of Maintenance with the management of delegated expenditure, maintenance planning decisions and the development of policies and procedures.
This role is full time working 40 hours per week and is based on site at Gloucestershire Airport, Staverton.
Essential experience of the Base Maintenance and Installations Coordinator:
- Demonstrable leadership and supervisory capability, including team engagement, mentoring and promoting a positive safety and reporting culture.
- Extensive experience within the United Kingdom aviation sector, ideally involving rotary‑wing operations and technical support.
- Background in Base Maintenance and modification activities with strong technical knowledge of aircraft systems.
- Working knowledge of Civil Aviation Authority regulations, Safety Management Systems and Human Factors principles.
- Experience liaising with engineering, logistics and planning teams in support of maintenance and airworthiness requirements.
Qualifications for the Base Maintenance and Installations Coordinator:
- Civil Aviation Authority Part 66 B1.3 Aircraft Maintenance Licence, ideally with EC135 and BK117D2 aircraft type ratings.
- Category C Aircraft Maintenance Licence (required).
- Category B2 Aircraft Maintenance Licence (desirable but not essential).
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) 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: 03/04/2026
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