Job Title: Mechanical Technician
Location: Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Compensation: £33,.08 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Keep aircraft mission ready. Protect what matters. Build a career with purpose
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Mechanical Technician at RAF Shawbury, near Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
The role
As a Mechanical Technician, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will work on a wide variety of aircraft types, contributing to maintenance, storage, and disposal programmes that support operational capability and sustainability. It is a highly practical role that broadens your experience, strengthens your technical expertise, and offers long-term development within defence, aerospace and engineering.
Day-to-day you’ll be required to:
1. Preparing fixed wing aircraft and helicopters for storage in line with engineering and safety standards
2. Carrying out in-storage maintenance across a wide range of air platforms
3. Preparing aircraft for sale, reuse, or responsible disposal
4. Controlling quality assurance activities and supporting health and safety compliance
5. Working collaboratively with engineering, quality, and safety colleagues to ensure best practice
Please note that this position involves manual work. This could include lifting, bending, using tools or standing for extended periods of time.
The role is based onsite at RAF Shawbury, working 38 hours per week, Monday to Thursday 08:00 to 17:00, and Friday 08:00 to 15:00.
Essential experience of the Mechanical Technician:
6. Demonstrable experience working within an aviation engineering environment
7. Experience working on fast jet aircraft and or helicopters
8. Experience maintaining or supporting multiple aircraft types
9. Proven background in quality assurance and health and safety practices
Qualifications for the Mechanical Technician:
10. Formal aircraft engineering training with recognised trade certification
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain 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 .
What we offer
11. Generous holiday allowance
12. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
13. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
14. Employee shopping savings portal
15. Payment of Professional Fees
16. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
17. 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.
18. ‘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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