Job Title: Licensed Aircraft Engineer
Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Compensation: £63,949.00 - £68,035.00 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72526
Shape the future of aviation engineering 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 Licensed Aircraft Engineer at Gloucestershire Airport (Staverton), near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
As a Licensed Aircraft Engineer, you’ll be part of our Aviation business, supporting the safe and efficient delivery of Base Maintenance across a varied fleet. You’ll carry out inspections, rectification work and technical support to ensure our aircraft remain fully mission-ready for customers across the UK. This role gives you the opportunity to apply and grow your technical expertise while contributing to the delivery of critical aviation services.
Day-to-day, you will be:
- Carrying out aircraft inspections, system checks and rectification work to support scheduled and emergent Base Maintenance.
- Requesting and coordinating spare parts, tooling and materials for maintenance and workshop activity.
- Working closely with Supervisors, Certifying Staff and the Maintenance Coordinator to ensure all tasks meet regulatory and internal standards.
- Providing clear technical updates to stakeholders across the operation.
- Supporting aircraft availability at Staverton and occasionally at other sites.
Please note that the successful candidate will be required to pass a targeted medical questionnaire and/or medical examination as a condition of employment for this role.
This role is full time working 40 hours per week and is based on site at Gloucestershire Airport, Staverton.
Essential experience of the Licenced Aircraft Engineer:
- Strong working knowledge of aircraft maintenance standards.
- Background in Base and/or Line Maintenance with solid technical understanding of rotary aircraft airframe and engine systems.
- Experience within UK aviation operations; rotary wing, HEMS or Police aviation experience advantageous.
- Good understanding of CAA regulations, including SMS and Human Factors.
- Confident communicator able to work effectively with people at all levels.
Qualifications for the Licenced Aircraft Engineer:
- Category C Aircraft Maintenance Licence is desirable.
- Category B2 Aircraft Maintenance Licence is desirable but not essential.
- European Union Aviation Safety Agency Part 66 B1.3 Aircraft Maintenance Licence, ideally including type ratings for EC135 and BK117/H145 aircraft.
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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