Job Title: Trainee Survival Equipment Technician
Location: Wallingford, Oxfordshire
Compensation: £27,000 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF68744
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.
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 working 40 hours per week and is based on site at Benson, Oxfordshire.
Essential experience of the Trainee Survival Equipment Technician:
A strong passion for engineering and aviation, with a keen interest in technical innovation and aircraft systems.
Qualifications for the Trainee Survival Equipment Technician:
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. 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: 03/03/2026
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