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Mechanical Technician
Location: Isle of Anglesey, Wales
Compensation: Competitive salary + benefits
Role Type: Full-time / Permanent
Role ID: SF72169
About the Role
Play a Key Role in Keeping Aircraft Mission-Ready
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 Valley, near Holyhead, Anglesey.
The Role
As a Mechanical Technician, you’ll be an experienced and skilled member of our maintenance team, undertaking detailed mechanical activities across aircraft and components. Your work ensures aircraft are maintained, rectified, and prepared to meet their daily operational tasks — directly supporting fast-jet training and contributing to aviation safety.
You’ll maintain and develop your technical competence, work to approved data and maintenance instructions, and support a busy operational environment where flexibility, teamwork, and attention to detail are essential.
Responsibilities
Your daily responsibilities will include:
- Completing mechanical maintenance and diagnostic activities on aircraft and components, including scheduled servicing, system tests, repairs, and rectifications.
- Analysing and diagnosing mechanical faults, applying technical knowledge to identify solutions and support safe and effective repairs.
- Reviewing operational performance of aircraft components and helping implement improvements to procedures and maintenance practices.
- Maintaining your personal competencies in line with the Maintenance Organisation Exposition (MOE) and operating strictly to approved technical information.
- Supporting compliance activities across the maintenance facility, including tooling control, documentation checks, and other mandated processes.
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This is a permanent, full-time, onsite position at RAF Valley, working 37.5 hours per week, plus shifts, with an additional shift allowance.
Essential Requirements
To excel in this role, you should have:
Experience:
- Completion of an engineering apprenticeship (ideally aeronautical).
- Minimum of City & Guilds 2675 Aeronautical Engineering & Maintenance or NVQ Level 3 Aeronautical discipline.
- Experience gained in a similar aircraft maintenance environment.
- Ability to work to approved data, maintenance instructions, and safety-critical procedures.
Qualifications:
- Aeronautical Engineering apprenticeship or military equivalent.
- Air Frame and Propulsion Trade Training.
- Computer literate.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role.
How to Access Further Information
Many of the positions within our company are subject to National Security Clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means 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:
United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK
Benefits
At Babcock, we value our employees, which is why 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.
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Additionally, our benefits include:
- For Reserves in the armed forces: 10 days special paid leave.
- Holiday Trading, which allows us to buy/sell annual leave within a specified timeframe (ideally during February-March annually).
- ‘Be Kind Day’, with which employees are entitled to one working day’s paid leave annually to pursue registered charity or volunteering work.
About Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000+ employees who work together to make a difference.
Here, you’ll be part of a mission that’s bigger than any single individual. From conception to decommissioning, your work contributes to products and services relevant to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we aim for an enduring legacy through meaningful careers that resilience and respect your work-life balance. That’s called lifetime engineering.
Join us and see how far we can go together.
Diversity and Inclusivity
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need reasonable adjustments throughout the application and selection process, please email:
careers@babcockinternational.com
rouge line: Reasonable adjustments requirement.
We firmly believe in a culture where everyone is free to thrive. We’re also committed to considering flexible working patterns; feel free to enquire about these during your interview.
Closing Date: 15/07/2026
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