Mechanical Technician

Job Title:

Mechanical Technician

Location:

Shrewsbury, Shropshire Role Type:
Full time / Permanent Role

Keep aircraft mission ready. Protect what matters. Build a career with purpose. 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 Shawbury, near Shrewsbury, Shropshire.

As a Mechanical Technician, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. 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.

• 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

Please note that this position involves manual work. This could include 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.

• Demonstrable experience working within an aviation engineering environment
• Experience working on fast jet aircraft and/or helicopters
• Experience maintaining or supporting multiple aircraft types
• Proven background in quality assurance and health and safety practices

• Formal aircraft engineering training with recognised trade certification

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.

Quality Assurance, Technician, Engineer, Technology, Engineering

• 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.