Job Title: Continuing Airworthiness Engineer
Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire + Occasional Travel to Other UK Sites
Compensation: £75, - £82, dependent on experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
Create a safer, more secure world with Babcock
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Continuing Airworthiness Engineer at Gloucestershire Airport Limited, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
The role
As a Continuing Airworthiness Engineer, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring the safe, efficient and compliant delivery of continuing airworthiness services across Babcock’s fleet. This is an exciting opportunity to work on a diverse range of aircraft, supporting critical aviation operations while developing your technical expertise and growing your influence within a collaborative engineering environment.
Day-to-day, you will:
1. Develop Approved Maintenance Programmes by reviewing Type Certificate Holder and regulatory instructions such as Airworthiness Directives and Service Bulletins.
2. Create and schedule maintenance programme tasks within the Maintenance Information System (RAMCO).
3. Support the Maintenance Review Board through data analysis and performance insights.
4. Manage technical enquiries including repair scheme requests and continuing airworthiness clarifications.
5. Ensure Mass and Balance reports reflect aircraft configuration accurately.
This role is full‑time working 40 hours per week and is based on site, working Monday–Friday, 8:00–17:00, with occasional travel to other UK locations as required.
Essential experience of the Continuing Airworthiness Engineer:
6. Experience working within a Continuing Airworthiness Management Organisation in a Commercial Air Transport environment.
7. Background suitable to be nominated for an Airworthiness Review position (SRG /AD).
8. Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Excel reporting.
9. Experience engaging stakeholders and presenting to senior managers.
10. Team leadership experience (from any setting).
Qualifications for the Continuing Airworthiness Engineer:
11. Aircraft engineering experience with systems knowledge, maintenance processes and standards (helicopter experience desirable).
12. Current detailed knowledge of CAA Part CAMO, Part M, Part and BCAR regulations.
13. Formal management, supervisory or business administration training (desirable).
14. Considerable relevant experience within the Aeronautical industry, or equivalent combination of Aeronautical degree and experience within Part CAMO.
15. Part 66 qualification with considerable Certifying Staff experience — ideally EC & BK — plus Part line and base maintenance experience.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) 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 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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