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Job Title: Mechanical Senior Supervisor>\

Location: Isle of Anglesey, Wales

Compensation: £37,271.74 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF66799

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Mechanical Senior Supervisor at our RAF Valley, Wales site.

As a Mechanical Senior Supervisor, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll take on complex and critical maintenance tasks across aircraft and their components. Your expertise will enable you to apply advanced diagnostic techniques, solve intricate technical challenges, and ensure peak operational performance.

Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:

• Maintain task authorisations for self and team in line with AMC requirements; perform fault evaluations and raise ad hoc work cards for identified issues.
• Deliver on agreed targets in the short to medium term through effective team supervision and progress reporting to management.
• Ensure compliance with MOE and Functionally Mandated Procedures (FMPs) by overseeing checks, managing tooling and test equipment, and supporting facility operations.
• Provide leadership and guidance, developing team members through formal assessments (e.g., PDRs), sponsoring training, and delivering on-the-job coaching.
• Communicate effectively, demonstrating strong people management skills to convey complex information clearly and confidently.

This role is full time working 36 hours per week and is based on site at RAF Valley, Wales.

• Considerable supervisory experience with proven leadership capability.
• Demonstrated breadth of experience supported by a Log Book evidencing skills, knowledge, and authorities for aircraft or bay work.
• Strong leadership and technical expertise, with broad product knowledge and understanding of interfacing areas.
• Ensure compliance with risk assessments, SHE policies, and procedures for self and team.
• Practical experience in aviation safety standards and safe operating practices.
• Comprehensive knowledge of Expositions and Functionally Mandated Procedures.
• Management training completed and applied effectively.

• Completed Engineering Apprenticeship, preferably in Aeronautical Engineering or equivalent military qualifications.
• Minimum academic requirement: City & Guilds 2675 or 2661 in Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance, or an equivalent qualification.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security 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 United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).

• 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 share scheme
• 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.
• ‘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
• Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental and financial wellbeing.

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 03/01/2026