Job Title: Survival Equipment Technician
Location: Lincolnshire, England
Compensation: £34,.10 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Help protect lives through specialist aviation safety equipment
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 Technician at Royal Air Force Cranwell, supporting critical aviation operations through the maintenance and assurance of life‑saving equipment.
The role
As a Survival Equipment Technician, you will carry out scheduled maintenance and repairs to any/all RAF Survival Equipment and Aircrew Equipment Assemblies as required to always meet or exceed customer expectations and HADES contractual needs.
Day-to-day, you’ll schedule the maintenance of Survival Equipment and Aircrew Equipment Assemblies, as well as:
1. Periodic, after use and corrective maintenance of wet/dry drill equipment.
2. Maintenance documentation and record to be maintained IAW current regulations.
3. Calibration and recording of Torque tools as and when required.
4. MOD form and raised and submitted, as necessary.
This is a full‑time, onsite role, working 39 hours per week, Monday to Friday.
Essential experience of the Survival Equipment Technician:
5. Experience of Parachute maintenance and packing.
6. Experience of Life Raft maintenance and packing.
Qualifications for the Survival Equipment Technician:
7. RAF Survival Equipment Course or civilian equivalent.
8. Q-SE-AC or Q-AV-MED.
9. RAF Flying Clothing Maintenance and Fitting.
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
10. Generous holiday allowance
11. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
12. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
13. Employee shopping savings portal
14. Payment of Professional Fees
15. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
16. 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.
17. ‘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 organisation with over 26, 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.
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