Senior Avionics Supervisor: Lead Safety‑Critical Team

Job Title:
Avionics Senior Supervisor

Location:
Isle of Anglesey, Wales

Compensation: £41,097.92 + Benefits

Role Type:
Full time / Permanent

Role

Lead safe, compliant avionics maintenance in a regulated aviation environment

This is a senior, hands‑on supervisory role where you’ll lead avionics maintenance activity, ensure airworthiness standards are met, and provide technical leadership to a skilled team supporting operational flying.

Reporting into the aviation leadership structure, you’ll supervise and support a team of avionics personnel, ensuring maintenance tasks are delivered safely, to schedule, and in line with approved technical data. You’ll balance technical oversight with people leadership, maintaining high standards of quality, safety, and compliance.

• Supervise avionics maintenance activity, ensuring work is completed safely, compliantly, and to plan
• Delegate and authorise tasks to maintain airworthiness and operational readiness
• Provide technical leadership, guidance, and support to avionics personnel
• Monitor quality, safety, and risk, escalating issues and supporting investigations where required
• Maintain accurate documentation and ensure compliance with approved technical information.

This is a full‑time, permanent onsite role, working standard weekday hours.

• A confident avionics supervisor with strong technical credibility
• Proven ability to lead teams in a safety‑critical, regulated environment
• Clear communication skills and the ability to make sound technical decisions
• A proactive approach to quality, compliance, and continuous improvement.

• Completion of a recognised avionics or aeronautical engineering apprenticeship or equivalent technical qualification
• Authorisation to carry out and oversee vital or independent inspections is desirable.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role.

• Generous holiday allowance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva Digi Care+
• Employee shopping savings portal
• Payment of Professional Fees
• Reservists in the armed forces receive 10‑days special paid leave
• 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.
• ‘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 any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email car with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.

Closing date: 05/06/2026