Job Title: Aircraft Ground Handler and Driver
Location: Shropshire, England
Compensation: £30,604.97 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF75122
Keep aircraft moving. Support vital flying operations.
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Aircraft Ground Handler and Driver at RAF Cosford, near Wolverhampton, Shropshire.
The role
As an Aircraft Ground Handler and Driver, you'll play a key role in supporting flight-line operations at RAF Cosford. This is a varied, hands-on position combining specialist driving responsibilities with aircraft ground handling duties, helping to ensure aircraft are prepared, serviced and ready to fly safely and efficiently.
Working as part of a dedicated operational team, you'll support flying activities through fuel vehicle operations, aircraft handling, ground support equipment checks and general airfield support tasks. If you enjoy practical work, responsibility and being part of a team that directly contributes to aviation operations, this could be the role for you.
Day-to-day, you will be:
- Driving fuel bowsers and carrying out vehicle checks to support daily flying operations.
- Assisting with the safe ground movement and handling of aircraft on the flight line.
- Preparing aircraft for flying activities, including see-in, see-off, fuel and oil replenishment activities.
- Conducting daily aircraft and ground support equipment inspections and basic authorised maintenance activities.
- Supporting housekeeping, aircraft cleaning and wider operational tasks across the site.
This role is full time, based on site at RAF Cosford, working 40 hours per week, Monday to Friday with occasional weekend working. Shift patterns and timings may change to support site operational requirements.
Essential experience of the Aircraft Ground Handler and Driver:
- Experience driving large vehicles in a safety-critical environment.
- Strong awareness of safety procedures and compliance requirements.
- Ability to work effectively within a team supporting operational activities.
- Good organisational skills and attention to detail.
- Experience within aviation, military or engineering environments would be advantageous.
Qualifications for the Aircraft Ground Handler and Driver:
- Clean driving licence.
- Ability to meet the colour vision requirements for airside operations (CP2/CP3).
- PSV, LGV and ADR qualifications
- Experience handling aircraft within a military or civilian aviation environment (desirable)
- Grob 115E Handling Course (desirable)
- A Check qualification (desirable)
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / 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.
Thank you for your interest in this opportunity. We encourage early applications, as we may close the advert before the stated deadline if we receive a high volume of strong candidates.
Closing date: 07/08/2026
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