Survival Equipment Supervisor

Babcock International; Salisbury; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Matched pension scheme + life cover

Digital GP and annual health check

Employee shopping portal

Professional Fees covered

Reservists 10 days paid leave

Holiday Trading program

Be Kind Day

Job summary

Babcock is looking for a Survival Equipment Supervisor to lead a specialist team at MOD Boscombe Down, Wiltshire. You will manage survival and aircrew equipment maintenance, ensuring regulatory and safety compliance and timely delivery in demanding environments.

The role demands a proven engineering background, leadership skills, and the ability to obtain a Counter Terrorist Check clearance. On-site, full-time employment with extensive benefits is offered.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in survival or life support equipment maintenance.
• Experience leading or supervising within a technical or engineering environment.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical capability.
• Knowledge of military engineering standards, procedures, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Leading and supervising a team delivering survival and aircrew equipment maintenance.
• Ensuring all activities meet regulatory, safety, and quality standards.
• Overseeing inspection, testing, and certification of equipment.
• Driving team performance, compliance, and continuous improvement.
• Coordinating work to ensure outputs are delivered safely and on time.

Skills

Survival equipment maintenance

Leadership / supervision

Problem solving

Military engineering standards

Education

Formal engineering training (RAF Trade Group 13)

QSEAC or AVMEDSE authorisations

Aircrew equipment qualifications (desirable)

Job description

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Salisbury, GB, SP4 0JF

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Job Title: Survival Equipment Supervisor

Location: Wiltshire, England

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF74587

Lead the team that keeps aircrew safe and mission-ready

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 supporting aviation operations.

The role

As a Survival Equipment Supervisor, you will lead a specialist team responsible for the safe, compliant, and effective maintenance of survival and aircrew equipment. Your leadership will directly impact safety performance, regulatory compliance, and overall operational effectiveness.

This is an exciting opportunity to step into a leadership role where you’ll guide a high-performing team, drive quality standards, and ensure critical equipment is always ready for use in demanding environments.

Day-to-day, you will be:

• Leading and supervising a team delivering survival and aircrew equipment maintenance
• Ensuring all activities meet regulatory, safety, and quality standards
• Overseeing inspection, testing, and certification of equipment
• Driving team performance, compliance, and continuous improvement
• Coordinating work to ensure outputs are delivered safely and on time.

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, 40 hours per week, based on site at MOD Boscombe Down, Wiltshire.

Essential experience of the Survival Equipment Supervisor:

• Proven experience in survival or life support equipment maintenance
• Experience leading or supervising within a technical or engineering environment
• Strong problem-solving and analytical capability
• High level of personal responsibility, flexibility, and accountability
• Knowledge of military engineering standards, procedures, or equivalent.

Qualifications for the Survival Equipment Supervisor:

• Formal engineering training (RAF Trade Group 13 or equivalent)
• Trade authorisations such as QSEAC or AVMEDSE
• Additional technical qualifications in aircrew equipment or specialist systems (desirable)

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) 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 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're 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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