Trainee Survival Equipment Technician

Babcock International Ltd; Balone; On-site; GBP 27,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading international defense company in Scotland is seeking a Trainee Survival Equipment Technician for their RAF Leuchars site. The role offers full-time employment with onsite training in maintenance and safety protocols. Successful candidates will have active engagement experience and must achieve security clearance. The company provides generous benefits, including a matched pension scheme and flexible working options.

Benefits

Generous holiday allowance

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to a Digital GP

Employee share scheme

Professional fees payment

Holiday Trading option

Volunteer leave ('Be Kind Day')

Employee assistance programme

Qualifications

• Demonstrates an active two-way engagement within a role or educational setting.
• An element of customers and stakeholders experience including people within the organisation.

Responsibilities

• Perform maintenance inspections, component changes, and repairs on various items of survival equipment.
• Gain practical knowledge about airworthiness and air safety protocols.
• Master administrative tasks associated with maintenance activities.

Skills

Active engagement

Customer and stakeholder experience

Job description

Job Title: Trainee Survival Equipment Technician
Location: St Andrews, Fife
Compensation: £27,000
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF64410

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 Trainee Survival Equipment Technician at our RAF Leuchars site.

The role

As a Trainee Survival Equipment Technician, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. An interesting, dynamic and rewarding role utilising specialist skill learnt through onsite training and development whilst operating within a small team, albeit being part of a much bigger international organisation.

Day-to-day, over the programme, you'll learn to perform maintenance inspections, component changes, and repairs on various items of survival equipment. You'll also gain practical knowledge and develop your understanding of airworthiness and air safety protocols:

• Additionally, you'll master the administrative tasks associated with maintenance activities and enhance your communication skills, confidence, and ability to collaborate with a team.

This role is full time and based onsite at RAF Leuchars. However, the company may, on occasion, ask you to deploy temporarily to other sites or support detachments at other operating locations.

Essential experience of the Trainee Survival Equipment Technician:

• Demonstrates an active two-way engagement within a role or educational setting,
• An element of customers and stakeholders experience including people within the organisation.

Qualifications for the Trainee Survival Equipment Technician:

• We value difference and we don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

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

• 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 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 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: 31/07/2025

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