Job Title: Avionics Senior Supervisor
Location: Isle of Anglesey, Wales
Compensation: £41,097.92 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73866
Lead safe, compliant avionics maintenance in a regulated aviation environment
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. We’re looking for an Avionics Senior Supervisor to join our Aviation business, based on site at RAF Valley (Holyhead).
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.
The role
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.
Day-to-day, you will:
- 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.
Essential experience of the Avionics Senior Supervisor:
- 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.
Qualifications for the Avionics Senior Supervisor:
- 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.
Security Clearance
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).
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 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.
Babcock
We’re Babcock — a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 26,000 people working together to make a difference.
Here, you’ll be part of something bigger. From initial design to final decommissioning, your work will contribute to products and services that are essential to national security and public infrastructure. Together, we’re building a future that lasts — not just through the impact we make, but through meaningful careers that respect your work-life balance.
We call that lifetime engineering.
Join us and see how far we can go, together.
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: 05/06/2026
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