Survival Equipment Supervisor

Job Title: Survival Equipment Supervisor

Location: Holyhead, Anglesey

Compensation: £34,.20 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF

Help keep aircrew mission-ready and make a real difference to frontline pilot training

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Survival Equipment Supervisor at RAF Valley, near Holyhead, Anglesey.

This is an exciting opportunity to join our Aviation business, supporting the maintenance and serviceability of critical aircrew survival equipment. Your expertise will help ensure pilots have the equipment they need to train safely and effectively, directly contributing to the development of the next generation of frontline aircrew. If you're looking for a career where your work has purpose, visibility, and impact, this role offers the opportunity to grow your skills while supporting vital national capability.

The role

As a Survival Equipment Supervisor, you'll supervise and undertake maintenance activities on essential survival and aircrew equipment, ensuring the highest standards of safety, airworthiness, and compliance are maintained. Working within a highly skilled aviation engineering team, you'll play a key role in supporting operational readiness while developing your leadership and technical expertise within a world-class defence and aerospace organisation.

Day-to-day, you’ll be required to:

• Conducting maintenance, inspection and diagnostic activities on survival and aircrew equipment assemblies.
• Resolving equipment faults, carrying out repairs, modifications and component replacements.
• Performing functional testing to ensure equipment meets operational and regulatory requirements.
• Ensuring all work is completed in accordance with approved technical documentation and maintenance procedures.
• Carrying out inspections, configuration management activities and critical compliance checks.

This role is full time, 37.5 hours per week and is based on site at RAF Valley.

Essential experience of the Survival Equipment Supervisor

• Experience working on survival equipment or comparable aircraft systems.
• Experience in a Survival Equipment Technician, aviation engineering, or similar technical role.
• Strong fault-finding, diagnostic and analytical skills.
• Experience maintaining equipment in a regulated engineering environment.
• Ability to work safely, accurately and to defined technical standards.

Qualifications for the Survival Equipment Supervisor

• Formal engineering training in RAF Trade Group 13 or equivalent.
• Trade Qualified Authorisations in QSEAC or AVMEDSE.
• Completion of an Engineering Apprenticeship, or equivalent, ideally in Aeronautical Engineering.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) AND ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations) 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