Workshop Technician

Brize Norton, England, United Kingdom

7/8/2025

Job Title: Workshop Technician

Location: Carterton, Oxfordshire

Compensation: £42,641 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF65787

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Workshop Technician at our RAF Brize Norton site.

The role

As a Workshop Technician, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Providing service support to the A330-200 Voyager aircraft based at Royal Air Force Brize Norton in Oxfordshire.

Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:

• General workshop tasks, compliance with Babcock and site policies on Health, Safety, Quality and Environmental.
• You will also complete driving tasks as required and assisting ground handling operations, operate Mobile Elevated Work Platforms, including boom and scissor lifts, operate Forklifts,
• Complete both IT and paperwork records and documents and assist with general tasks as directed by Line Management.
  
  
  

This role is full time and based onsite at RAF Brize Norton.

Essential Experience Of The Workshop Technician

• Extensive experience within a similar aircraft industry.
• Experience with fleet ground support equipment and Specialist airfield vehicles, including maintenance and repair of vehicle fleet.
  
  
  

Qualifications For The Workshop Technician

• Must be in possession of basic driving licence and Large Goods Vehicles licence C and D1. (Manual licence only)
• Must have served a recognised apprenticeship as a mechanic/fitter and hold an NVQ Level 3 qualification or equivalent qualifications in Heavy Vehicle Maintenance.
  
  
  

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Check (SC) 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 share scheme
• 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 International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

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 [email protected] 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: 22/07/2025

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