Survival Equipment Supervisor

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Holyhead; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 62,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension scheme with life assurance

Digital GP and health check

Employee share scheme

Holiday trading scheme

Be Kind Day

Flexible working

Job summary

Babcock is seeking a Survival Equipment Supervisor to manage maintenance of survival and aircrew equipment at RAF Valley, near Holyhead. You will supervise and perform diagnostics to ensure safety, airworthiness and regulatory compliance within a skilled aviation engineering team.

The role emphasizes leadership development and hands-on technical growth in a national security–defence environment, with clear impact on flight safety and training readiness.

Qualifications

• Experience working on survival equipment or comparable aircraft systems.
• Experience in a Survival Equipment Technician, aviation engineering, or similar technical role.
• Strong fault-finding, diagnostic and analytical skills.
• Experience maintaining equipment in a regulated engineering environment.
• Ability to work safely, accurately and to defined technical standards.

Responsibilities

• Conducting maintenance, inspection and diagnostic activities on survival and aircrew equipment assemblies.
• Resolving equipment faults, carrying out repairs, modifications and component replacements.
• Performing functional testing to ensure equipment meets operational and regulatory requirements.
• Ensuring all work is completed in accordance with approved technical documentation and maintenance procedures.
• Carrying out inspections, configuration management activities and critical compliance checks.

Skills

Survival equipment

Fault finding

Regulated environment

Safety standards

Analytical skills

Education

RAF Trade Group 13

QSEAC / AVMEDSE

Engineering Apprenticeship

Job description

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Location: Holyhead, GB, LL65 3NY

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Job Title: Survival Equipment Supervisor

Location: Holyhead, Anglesey

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF75127

Help keep aircrew mission-ready and make a real difference to frontline pilot training

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Survival Equipment Supervisor at RAF Valley, near Holyhead, Anglesey.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Aviation business, supporting the maintenance and serviceability of critical aircrew survival equipment. Your expertise will help ensure pilots have the equipment they need to train safely and effectively, directly contributing to the development of the next generation of frontline aircrew. If you're looking for a career where your work has purpose, visibility, and impact, this role offers the opportunity to grow your skills while supporting vital national capability.

The role

As a Survival Equipment Supervisor, you'll supervise and undertake maintenance activities on essential survival and aircrew equipment, ensuring the highest standards of safety, airworthiness, and compliance are maintained. Working within a highly skilled aviation engineering team, you'll play a key role in supporting operational readiness while developing your leadership and technical expertise within a world-class defence and aerospace organisation.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Conducting maintenance, inspection and diagnostic activities on survival and aircrew equipment assemblies.
• Resolving equipment faults, carrying out repairs, modifications and component replacements.
• Performing functional testing to ensure equipment meets operational and regulatory requirements.
• Ensuring all work is completed in accordance with approved technical documentation and maintenance procedures.
• Carrying out inspections, configuration management activities and critical compliance checks.

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

Essential experience of the Survival Equipment Supervisor

• Experience working on survival equipment or comparable aircraft systems.
• Experience in a Survival Equipment Technician, aviation engineering, or similar technical role.
• Strong fault-finding, diagnostic and analytical skills.
• Experience maintaining equipment in a regulated engineering environment.
• Ability to work safely, accurately and to defined technical standards.

Qualifications for the Survival Equipment Supervisor

• Formal engineering training in RAF Trade Group 13 or equivalent.
• Trade Qualified Authorisations in QSEAC or AVMEDSE.
• Completion of an Engineering Apprenticeship, or equivalent, ideally in Aeronautical Engineering.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) AND ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations) 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• ‘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
• Flexible working - we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment

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.

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