Survival Equipment Supervisor in Holyhead

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 involves supervising and undertaking 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:

• Conduct maintenance, inspection and diagnostic activities on survival and aircrew equipment assemblies.
• Resolve equipment faults, carrying out repairs, modifications and component replacements.
• Perform functional testing to ensure equipment meets operational and regulatory requirements.
• Ensure all work is completed in accordance with approved technical documentation and maintenance procedures.
• Carry 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.

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 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 is 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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 06/08/2026