Airworthiness Engineer in Gloucester

Location: Gloucestershire Airport, Staverton + Hybrid Working Arrangements

Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Shape the Future of Aviation Safety

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Airworthiness Engineer at Gloucestershire Airport, Staverton, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

The role

As an Airworthiness Engineer, you will play a vital part in ensuring the safe, efficient and compliant delivery of airworthiness services across Babcock’s fleet. This is an exciting opportunity to work on a diverse range of aircraft, supporting critical aviation operations while developing your technical expertise and growing your influence across a busy and collaborative engineering environment.

Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:

• Delivering safe, efficient and cost‑effective airworthiness services to Babcock and customer fleets.
• Managing technical requests, including repair schemes, using manufacturer and regulatory data.
• Reviewing and administering oil analysis reports to support ongoing condition monitoring.
• Managing and developing engine health monitoring in line with manufacturer requirements.
• Supporting the achievement of contractual commitments and key performance targets.

You will work Monday to Friday, 08:00–17:00, onsite at Gloucestershire Airport, with occasional travel required. Your work will directly support operational safety, regulatory compliance, fleet reliability and ongoing capability improvement across our aviation programmes.

Essential experience of the Airworthiness Engineer:

• Experience delivering airworthiness services within an aviation environment.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, including data manipulation and Excel‑based reporting.
• Experience engaging stakeholders and presenting to senior managers.
• Team leadership experience in any setting (not required to be work‑based).

Qualifications for the Airworthiness Engineer:

• Aircraft engineering experience, including systems knowledge, maintenance processes and standards.
• Part 66 qualification.
• Line and base maintenance experience.
• (Desirable) Current knowledge of EASA Part M, Part 145 and BCAR regulations.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) 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 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.
• ‘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 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: 27/02/2026