Trainee Survival Equipment Technician

Babcock Mission Critical Services España SA.; Salisbury; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace and defense company is seeking a Trainee Survival Equipment Technician to join their team in Salisbury. This role offers a unique opportunity to develop skills in engineering and aviation through a comprehensive training program. Candidates must have a genuine interest in engineering and the ability to achieve UK security clearance. Exceptional development opportunities and a competitive benefits package are provided.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Access to Digital GP and health check

Employee share scheme

Holiday Trading

‘Be Kind Day’ for volunteering

Excellent development opportunities

Qualifications

• Must be able to achieve and maintain UK - Enhanced DBS and Child Barring Service security clearance.
• Willingness to learn and show required level of experience is essential.

Responsibilities

• Attend a 1-week theoretical and 3-week practical training course.
• Receive on-the-job training and practical experience.
• Work with survival and aircrew equipment assemblies.

Skills

Genuine interest in general engineering and aviation

Active engagement in roles or educational settings

Experience interacting with customers and stakeholders

Job description

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Location:

Salisbury, GB, SP4 0JF

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Job Title: Trainee Survival Equipment Technician

Location: Wiltshire

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF66227

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 Boscombe Down, Wiltshire site.

The role

As a Trainee Survival Equipment Technician, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. Our Trainee Survival Equipment Technician programme will equip you with the essential skills and experience to build a successful career working in the aerospace industry. A career path formally reserved for military personnel.

Day-to-day, over the programme, you will receive an initial 1-week theoretical course and 3-week practical training course at RAF Shawbury before returning to your parent unit to complete the second phase of your training via On-the-Job Training (OJT) and practical experience on site. Including but not limited to:

• Introduction to the Defence Engineering Air Environment
• Basic Electrical Hand Skills
• Basic Mechanical Hand Skills
• Survival Equipment and Aircrew Equipment Assemblies
• Further on the job training

Essential experience of the Trainee Survival Equipment Technician:

• A genuine interest in general engineering and aviation.
• 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 UK - Enhanced DBS and Child Barring Service (EDBSCBL) 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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