Aviation Auditor

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Gloucester; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aviation services provider is seeking an Aviation Auditor based in Gloucester. This role involves auditing regulatory compliance across aircraft operations, ensuring safety and operational excellence. Candidates should have experience in civil aviation, knowledge of aviation regulations, and skills as an auditor. You will work within a dynamic environment with opportunities for hybrid work. The role offers competitive salary and benefits and is based at Gloucestershire Airport.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee shopping savings portal

Payment of Professional Fees

Special paid leave for reservists

Holiday Trading

Paid leave for volunteering

Qualifications

• Recent experience within a civil aviation environment.
• Strong knowledge of, or ability to rapidly learn, aviation regulations including Part CAMO & Part 145.
• Demonstrable or developing auditor skills.

Responsibilities

• Deliver the annual Engineering Audit Plan.
• Carry out compliance audits against aviation safety regulations.
• Support the Compliance Monitoring Programme.
• Provide guidance on Engineering Authorisations and regulatory expectations.
• Work with stakeholders across Engineering, Operations, and Compliance teams.

Skills

Aviation regulations knowledge

Auditor skills

Civil aviation experience

Education

Trained Auditor

Engineering experience in Part 145/CAMO

Job description

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Aviation Auditor

Location: Gloucester, GB, GL51 6SP

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Job Title: Aviation Auditor

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF71651

Help Shape the Future of Aviation Compliance

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Aviation Auditor at Staverton (Gloucestershire Airport), near Gloucester.

The role

As an Aviation Auditor, you’ll have a role that’s truly out of the ordinary — providing vital oversight across our Helicopter Emergency Medical Service (HEMS) and Police aviation operations. You will help ensure that Babcock continues to meet all regulatory and internal engineering compliance standards, making a real impact on safety, operational excellence, and aviation assurance. This is an excellent opportunity to grow your auditing expertise within a highly specialised engineering environment, while influencing how we operate today and in the future.

Day‑to‑day responsibilities

• Deliver the annual Engineering Audit Plan, ensuring regulatory standards are consistently met.
• Carry out compliance audits against aviation safety regulations, identifying gaps and improvement opportunities.
• Support the Compliance Monitoring Programme, including the coordination of Engineering Authorisations.
• Provide SME‑level guidance on Engineering Authorisations, limitations, and regulatory expectations.
• Work collaboratively with stakeholders across Engineering, Operations, and Compliance teams.

You’ll work 40 hours per week, Monday–Friday, based primarily at Gloucestershire Airport. Hybrid working patterns are available, with three days per week onsite and occasional travel to other UK sites (approximately once per month). A car allowance is provided.

Essential experience

• Recent experience within a civil aviation environment.
• Strong knowledge of, or ability to rapidly learn, aviation regulations including Part CAMO & Part 145.
• Demonstrable or developing auditor skills.

Qualifications

Trained Auditor and/or engineering experience within a Part 145 and/or Part CAMO 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

• 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 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 [e-mail] 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.