Job Title: Aircraft Mechanical Technician
Location: RAF Shawbury, Shrewsbury, Shropshire
Compensation: £33,691.08 + Overtime + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72908
At Babcock, we are working to create a safe and secure world. This role is a Mechanical Technician at RAF Shawbury, near Shrewsbury, Shropshire.
The role
As an Aircraft Mechanical Technician, 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 responsibilities
* Preparing fixed wing aircraft and helicopters for storage in line with engineering and safety standards.
* Carrying out in-storage maintenance across a wide range of air platforms.
* Preparing aircraft for sale, reuse, or responsible disposal.
* Controlling quality assurance activities and supporting health and safety compliance.
* Working collaboratively with engineering, quality, and safety colleagues to ensure best practice.
This position involves manual work, including 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
* Demonstrable experience working within an aviation engineering environment.
* Experience maintaining or supporting multiple aircraft types.
* Proven background in quality assurance and health and safety practices.
Qualifications
* Recognised trade certification.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role. Positions may be subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions based on place of birth, nationality, citizenship, and residency.
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 shopping savings portal.
* Payment of professional fees.
* Reservists in the armed forces receive 10 days special paid leave.
* Holiday Trading allows UK Babcock employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement (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.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header 'Reasonable adjustments requirement'. We are happy to discuss flexible working.
Closing date: 26/06/2026
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