Survival Equipment Supervisor in Salisbury

Location: Wiltshire, England

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:

• 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:

• 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:

• 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.

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.
• ‘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 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.