Job Title: Mechanical Technician
Location: Isle of Anglesey, Wales
Compensation: £33,023.88 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74334
Keep aircraft mission-ready and make an impact where it really matters.
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Mechanical Technician at RAF Valley, near Holyhead.
As a Mechanical Technician, you’ll play a vital role in maintaining aircraft and critical components, ensuring they are safe, compliant, and ready for operation. Working within our Aviation business, you’ll carry out hands-on maintenance activities that directly support national defence and frontline capability.
This is an exciting opportunity to work in a dynamic and highly regulated environment, where your expertise will contribute to mission success while developing your technical skills in a supportive team.
Day-to-day, you will be:
- Carrying out maintenance, repair, and modification activities on aircraft components
- Diagnosing faults and completing rectification in line with approved technical data
- Updating maintenance records and reporting any issues identified during work
- Supporting compliance activities such as tooling checks and equipment control
- Collaborating with team members and providing guidance to less experienced technicians.
This is a full-time, onsite role based at RAF Valley, working 37.5 hours per week.
Essential experience of the Mechanical Technician:
- Experience working within an aircraft or component maintenance environment
- Ability to interpret technical information and follow detailed maintenance instructions
- Strong organisational skills with the ability to prioritise tasks and meet targets
- Confident communication skills, both written and verbal, using technical language
- Experience using maintenance systems, databases, and standard IT tools.
Qualifications for the Mechanical Technician:
- Completion of an Engineering Apprenticeship (or equivalent), ideally in Aeronautical Engineering
- Relevant hands-on experience within an aircraft maintenance environment.
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: 10/07/2026
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