Job Title: Licensed Aircraft Engineer
Location: Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire, England
Compensation: £49,015.00 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF71694
Help keep vital aircraft flying safely and support critical aviation operations.
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Licensed Aircraft Engineer at our site in RAF Wittering, supporting essential operations across our Aviation business.
The role
As a Licensed Aircraft Engineer, you’ll carry out aircraft engineering, line and depth maintenance, and all associated activities to ensure aircraft are safe, serviceable and ready to meet customer and contractual requirements. Working with a team of Mechanical and Avionic Engineers, you’ll support the generation and release to service of aircraft in accordance with civilian regulations and Babcock approvals.
Day-to-day, you’ll be:
- Delivering aircraft maintenance in line with regulatory, safety and company requirements.
- Leading and supporting technicians and inspectors during maintenance activities.
- Conducting fault diagnosis and problem‑solving within a technical engineering environment.
- Ensuring all engineering activities comply with legislation, procedures and customer expectations.
- Collaborating closely with colleagues, the Site Operations Manager and wider stakeholders to maintain operational output.
This role full‑time working 40 hours per week and is based on site at RAF Wittering, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. You will be working 40 hours per week on a 4‑on, 4‑off shift pattern, including weekends. Shifts typically run 07:30–19:30, and patterns may vary depending on operational needs.
Essential experience of the Licensed Aircraft Engineer:
- Knowledge of MOD Engineering procedures and documentation.
- Supervisory experience within a civil or military aviation environment.
Qualifications for the Licensed Aircraft Engineer:
- Full UK Driving Licence.
- CAA Part 66 B1.2 Licence (essential).
- B3 Licence (accepted).
- Human Factors qualification (desirable).
- Recognised SHE qualification (desirable).
- Defence industry experience (desirable).
- Type Rating on Grob 115E aircraft and Lycoming 360 engines (desirable).
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) 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: 24/04/2026
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