Job Title: Licenced Aircraft Engineer Instructor
Location: Flexible, UK + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: £38,500 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF70179
Create a safer, more secure world with Babcock.
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Licenced Aircraft Engineer Instructor.
The role
This is an exciting opportunity to join our well-established Light Aircraft Flying Task (LAFT2) contract, providing class-leading support to the UK Ministry of Defence. You’ll take on a dynamic and rewarding role that combines technical expertise with training delivery, making a real difference to the development of future licensed aircraft engineers.
Day-to-day, you’ll be:
- Developing and delivering training packages that meet regulatory standards.
- Maintaining and updating training materials to ensure compliance.
- Providing technical support on airframe and propulsion systems.
- Ensuring adherence to Part 145, Part 66, and Part 147 regulations.
- Collaborating with internal teams and stakeholders to meet business needs.
This role is full time working 40 hours per week.
Essential experience of the Licenced Aircraft Engineer Instructor:
- Proven experience in training delivery and curriculum development (Part 66 & Part 147).
- Maintaining training materials and ensuring compliance.
- Strong technical skills in aeronautical engineering (Level 3 or equivalent).
- In-depth understanding of aircraft systems and maintenance procedures.
- Knowledge of relevant aviation regulations.
Qualifications for the Licenced Aircraft Engineer Instructor:
- Certification of Education in a teaching/training qualification.
- Experience in a Part 147 training environment.
- City & Guilds Level 3 in Aeronautical Engineering.
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: 23/03/2026
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