Job Title: Technical Labourer
Location: Shropshire, England
Compensation: £25,000 - £26,500 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF71813
Support vital aircraft maintenance operations and help keep aircraft 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 Technical Labourer at RAF Shawbury, near Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
The role
As a Technical Labourer, you’ll provide essential support to our aircraft maintenance teams, ensuring aircraft, components and spares are prepared, moved and stored safely and efficiently. You’ll work within the Aviation Maintenance Support Unit (AMSU), supporting technicians, logistics activities and flight‑line operations to help maintain operational readiness.
Day-to-day, you will:
- Assist with preparing aircraft for storage and supporting maintenance teams.
- Prepare aircraft parts for examination and spares for despatch.
- Carry out supply transactions for movement of aircraft spares across units.
- Complete driving tasks to support AMSU output, including aircraft towing (once qualified).
- Record daily data in the JAMES ground support equipment database.
This role is full time working an average of 38 hours per week and is based on site at RAF Shawbury, Shropshire. Weekly hours may vary depending on operational needs but will balance out across the month.
Essential experience of the Technical Labourer:
- Understanding of working within a Part‑145 aircraft maintenance environment.
- Awareness of aircraft maintenance team operations and airfield procedures.
- Understanding of POL (Petrol, Oil and Lubricants) and COSHH requirements within aircraft maintenance environments.
- Ability to work safely and effectively within an operational airfield environment.
Qualifications for the Technical Labourer:
- Full UK driving licence.
- MJDI qualification (desirable).
- Forklift Operator certification (desirable).
- Dangerous Goods (Air & Road) qualification (desirable).
- JAMES operator experience (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: 09/03/2026
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