Job Title: Compliance and Air Safety Manager
Location: Lincolnshire, England + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £50,000 - £55,000 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72170
Lead the continued safety, quality, and compliance of a critical defence aviation programme
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Compliance and Air Safety Manager within our Aviation business, supporting operations across the entire HADES programme. Based at RAF Cranwell with hybrid and flexible working, you’ll be at the heart of our aviation safety culture while helping maintain strong relationships with our customer and site teams.
The role
As a Compliance and Air Safety Manager, you’ll play a key role in ensuring that all maintenance and air safety activities across the HADES programme are carried out in line with Military Regulatory Articles and ISO9001:2015 standards. You will lead the audit programme, support continual improvement, and act as the nominated Air Safety Manager — making you central to the safe and compliant delivery of our aviation operations.
Day-to-day, you’ll be:
- Acting as the HADES Form 4 Quality Manager in line with RA 4806 requirements (MRP 145.A.30)
- Serving as the ISO 9001:2015 Lead Auditor and overseeing the full internal audit programme
- Providing leadership and support for the Air Safety Management System and Quality Management System
- Ensuring audit programmes assess all activities, validate controls and satisfy stakeholder requirements
- Maintaining a continuous‑improvement framework that monitors performance, trends safety indicators and drives quality enhancements.
This role is full time working 39 hours per week and provides flexible and hybrid working arrangements, mainly based at RAF Cranwell, Lincolnshire. Please note, the role involves significant travel across all HADES locations.
Essential experience of the Compliance and Air Safety Manager:
- Strong experience owning and operating a Quality Management System in the aircraft maintenance sector
- Extensive auditing experience within the aviation maintenance environment
- Knowledge of error‑management systems, Just Culture principles and investigation techniques
- Experience embedding and sustaining continual improvement.
Qualifications for the Compliance and Air Safety Manager:
- Military Regulatory Publication Part 145 Form Four Quality Manager
- International Organization for Standardization 9001 Lead.
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: 25/03/2026
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