Trainee Survival Equipment Technician

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 Benson, Oxfordshire site.

Location: Wallingford, Oxfordshire

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Hours: 40 hours per week; on site at Benson, Oxfordshire

The role

As a Trainee Survival Equipment Technician, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll receive specialist training to maintain and repair critical survival equipment that safeguards pilots throughout their flying training and operational missions.

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

• Repair and rectify all aircrew air systems
• Perform routine maintenance on clothing, parachutes, ELTs, and flotation devices
• Conduct stock checks and manage consumable supplies
• Carry out weekly and monthly tool checks and maintain tool control standards
• Manage sensitive data, asset allocation, and maintenance control systems.

This role is full time and is based on site at Benson, Oxfordshire.

Essential experience

A strong passion for engineering and aviation, with a keen interest in technical innovation and aircraft systems.

Qualifications

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

Security Clearance

Successful candidates must meet Ministry of Defence security clearance requirements, including at minimum a Baseline Security Check and Enhanced DBS. 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 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.
• ‘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 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.