Job Description

Job Title: Survival Equipment Technician

Location: Shropshire, England

Compensation: £35,467.38 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF73871

Maintain critical survival and aircrew equipment in a safety‑critical aviation environment

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. We’re looking for a Survival Equipment Technician to join our Aviation business, based on site at RAF Shawbury, supporting the HADES contract and Rotary Flying Training operations.

This is a hands‑on technical role where you’ll be responsible for the inspection, maintenance, and rectification of survival equipment and aircrew equipment assemblies that directly support flying operations.

The role

As a Survival Equipment Technician, you’ll be part of a specialist Survival Equipment team, delivering preventative and corrective maintenance on all items of Survival Equipment (SE) and Aircrew Equipment Assemblies (AEA). You’ll work to approved standards, publications, and procedures, ensuring equipment is safe, serviceable, and available to meet the flying programme

Day-to-day, you will be:

• Carry out maintenance, inspection, and repair of Survival Equipment (SE) and Aircrew Equipment Assemblies (AEA)
• Ensure all work is completed in line with approved technical publications, standards, and procedures
• Promote and maintain a strong safety culture, including hazard, near‑miss, and incident reporting
• Support quality, security, environmental, and health & safety standards across the team
• Contribute to investigations and continuous improvement activities where required.
  
  

This is a full‑time, permanent role, working Monday to Friday (08:00–17:00), with flexibility required to support the flying programme. The role is fully onsite at RAF Shawbury.

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.

Essential experience of the Survival Equipment Technician:

• A safety‑focused technician with experience maintaining survival or aircrew equipment
• Strong understanding of technical documentation, engineering publications, and procedures
• Ability to work independently while contributing effectively within a team environment
• A professional approach when working in a regulated, operational setting.

Qualifications for the Survival Equipment Technician:

• Recognised technical or engineering qualification within survival equipment or aircrew equipment maintenance
• Selective sizing and fitting of aircrew equipment assemblies and NVG maintenance experience is desirable.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) 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

• 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. 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.

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: 04/06/2026

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