Job Title: Aircraft Handler
Location: Salisbury Wiltshire
Compensation: £26, + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Aircraft Handler at our MOD Boscombe Down site.
The role
As an Aircraft Handler, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You will be reporting to the Site Operations Manager and you will assist in the ground movement of aircraft and be a key part of our flight-line operations.
Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:
1. Always Maintain Best practice and Health and Safety standards.
2. Mentor new starters.
3. Carry out a check on aircraft – training provided
4. Marshalling and refuelling aircraft - training provided
This role is full time and based onsite at MOD Boscombe Down. However, the company may, on occasion, ask you to deploy to other sites or support detachments at other operating locations.
Experience for the Aircraft Handler
5. Experience of handling aircraft in a military or civilian EASA Pt environment. Preferable but not essential
6. Ability to demonstrate practical and theoretical standards required.
Qualifications for the Aircraft Handler
7. Clean driving licence.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Counter Terrorism Check (CTC) 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
8. Generous holiday allowance
9. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
10. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
11. Employee share scheme
12. Employee shopping savings portal
13. Payment of Professional Fees
14. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
15. 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.
16. ‘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
17. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.