Aircraft Technician

Job Title:                     Aircraft Technician

Location:                     Merseyside, England

Compensation:           £32,551.83 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF71526

Keep Aircraft Mission‑Ready and Support UK Aviation Training

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 RAF Woodvale, near Formby, Liverpool

The role

As an Aircraft Technician, you’ll play a vital role in supporting the engineering and maintenance activities that keep our training aircraft safe, serviceable and ready for daily flying operations. Working closely with Licensed Aircraft Engineers (LAEs) and aircraft inspectors, you’ll contribute to line and depth maintenance, scheduled servicing, ground handling and other essential engineering tasks that directly support flight safety and training delivery.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Prepare aircraft for daily flying, including ground handling, turnaround tasks, fuel and oil replenishment


• Support line and depth maintenance activities, completing scheduled servicing and corrective maintenance


• Interpret technical data and follow authorised engineering procedures to ensure safe, compliant work


• Assist LAEs and inspectors with engineering activities, documentation and maintenance records


• Carry out other engineering‑related tasks to meet or exceed customer and contractual requirements.

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 is a full‑time onsite role working 40 hours per week based at RAF Woodvale, near Formby, Liverpool. Shift patterns may be flexible depending on operational needs, including some weekend work. You may also be asked to deploy occasionally to other sites or support detachments at alternative operating locations.

Essential experience of the Aircraft Technician:

• Ability to interpret technical data accurately


• Strong stakeholder engagement skills


• Exposure to similar aviation or engineering environments, including candidates who have recently qualified and wish to develop further.

Qualifications for the Aircraft Technician:

• Recognised Aircraft Engineering Apprenticeship, Military training, NVQ Level 3 or equivalent


• Knowledge of aircraft maintenance engineering procedures


• Full UK driving licence.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) and Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (EDBS) 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.

Babcock

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 [email protected] 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: 03/03/2026

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