Production Planner

Job Title:                     Aircraft Maintenance Production Planner

Location:                     Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

Compensation:           Highly Competitive + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                        SF76310

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 Maintenance Production Planner at Gloucestershire Airport (Staverton), near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

The role

As an Aircraft Maintenance Production Planner, you'll be part of our Aviation business, supporting the planning and delivery of Base Maintenance activities across our Airbus EC135 and H145 helicopter fleet.

Working within our Part-145 Maintenance Organisation, you'll act as the key interface between CAMO, Engineering, Logistics and Operations, ensuring all maintenance inputs are fully planned, resourced and ready for execution. Your work will directly contribute to aircraft availability for mission-critical HEMS and Police Aviation operations across the UK

Day-to-day, you will:

• Develop and maintain maintenance plans for scheduled and unscheduled aircraft maintenance activities.


• Convert CAMO maintenance requirements into executable maintenance work packages.


• Coordinate manpower, tooling, facilities, materials and specialist resources required for maintenance inputs.


• Monitor maintenance progress and support recovery planning where schedules are at risk.


• Coordinate the embodiment of Airworthiness Directives, Service Bulletins, Repairs and Modifications.


• Work closely with CAMO, Stores, Logistics, Operations and Maintenance Delivery teams to optimise aircraft availability.

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 Aircraft Maintenance Production Planner:

• Experience in aircraft maintenance planning, production planning or maintenance coordination.


• Understanding of aircraft maintenance processes and engineering resource planning.


• Experience preparing and controlling maintenance work packages.


• Strong organisational, communication and problem-solving skills.


• Experience using aviation maintenance management software such as RAMCO, AMOS, Rusada or equivalent.

Qualifications for the Aircraft Maintenance Production Planner:

• HNC/HND, Degree or equivalent experience in an aviation, engineering or technical discipline.


• Relevant aircraft maintenance planning or engineering experience

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

Babcock

We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 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: 20/10/2026

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