Job Title: Aircraft Support Equipment Technician
Location: Swindon, Wiltshire
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF71049
Create impact. Shape the future of defence engineering.
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Aircraft Support Equipment Technician at our Lyneham, near Swindon, Wiltshire.
The role
As an Aircraft Support Equipment Technician, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will play a key role in ensuring the equipment that underpins critical defence training is safe, reliable and ready whenever it is needed. This is an exciting opportunity to use your technical expertise to support the delivery of high-quality training that helps prepare personnel for real world operations. Your work will directly contribute to keeping people safe, enhancing national security and strengthening the next generation of defence capability
Day to day you will be required to:
- Carry out scheduled and unscheduled maintenance, inspections and repairs on aircraft support equipment and ground training aids.
- Complete all supporting documentation accurately and on time in line with service requirements.
- Identify and request appropriate spare parts to maximise equipment availability.
- Follow all health, safety and environmental procedures while contributing to continuous improvement.
- Support other engineering tasks within your competence as directed by the Service Manager.
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, and the position involves manual work which may include lifting, bending, using tools or standing for extended periods of time.
The role is based onsite at Lyneham, and the set working times are 37 hours per week, Monday to Friday. Once probation is passed, there will be an opportunity to work a four day week while maintaining the same total hours.
Essential experience of the Aircraft Support Equipment Technician:
- Experienced and qualified in Aircraft Support Equipment.
- Strong knowledge and experience of aircraft maintenance procedures.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Confident using Microsoft Office applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, email and internet tools.
- Practical experience within aircraft maintenance or related engineering environments.
Qualifications for the Aircraft Support Equipment Technician:
- Formal Aeronautical Engineering training and practical experience at minimum Level 3, covering the maintenance of aircraft, aircraft support equipment or ground training aids.
- Full UK Driving Licence category B.
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: 11/02/2026
