Support Bays Team Leader

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Llandudno; On-site; GBP 45,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace company is seeking a Support Bays Team Leader in Llandudno to oversee mechanical and avionic maintenance operations. The ideal candidate will have extensive engineering experience and a strong understanding of aviation standards. This full-time role requires leadership skills and a commitment to safety and compliance in a fast-paced environment.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Payment of Professional Fees

'Be Kind Day' for volunteering

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Extensive engineering trade experience is essential.
• Strong experience in a supervisory role is required.
• Candidates must understand aviation maintenance standards.

Responsibilities

• Lead mechanical and avionic maintenance activities.
• Contribute to maintenance planning and identify risks.
• Manage administrative duties and compliance.

Skills

Extensive engineering trade experience

Substantial experience in a supervisory role

Strong understanding of aviation maintenance standards

Proven ability to lead teams

Experience using digital platforms for reporting

Education

NVQ Level 4 in Leadership and Management

Completed SiA and LMDP training

Full UK Driving Licence

Job description

Overview

Lead with Purpose. Engineer the Future

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Support Bays Team Leader at our Valley site, near Holyhead, Anglesey.

Location: Valley, Holyhead, Anglesey. Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite. Role Type: Full time / Permanent. Location detail: Llandudno, GB, LL65 3NY (note: reference location in posting).

Role ID: SF66904

This role is based at Valley and is full-time, 37.5 hours per week.

The role

As a Support Bays Team Leader, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll take charge of scheduled and unscheduled mechanical and avionic maintenance activities within our support bays. You’ll be at the heart of operations, ensuring our aircraft are maintained to the highest standards, on time and in full compliance with aviation regulations.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Lead and coordinate mechanical and avionic maintenance activities, ensuring safety and compliance
• Contribute to maintenance planning forums, identifying risks and recovery solutions
• Drive improvements in maintenance capability aligned with customer needs
• Deliver accurate updates on maintenance schedules and resource utilisation
• Manage administrative duties including SQEP, absence reporting, and AMC compliance

Please note that the successful candidate will be required to pass a targeted medical questionnaire and/or medical examination as a condition.

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and is based at Valley.

Essential experience

• Extensive engineering trade experience
• Substantial experience in a supervisory role
• Strong understanding of aviation maintenance standards and planning
• Proven ability to lead teams in a high-pressure, regulated environment
• Experience using digital platforms for reporting and planning

Qualifications

• NVQ Level 4 in Leadership and Management or equivalent experience
• Completed SiA and LMDP training
• Full UK Driving Licence

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 share scheme
• 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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

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.

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