Job Title: Mechanical Technician
Location: Isle of Anglesey, Wales
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF65656
Deliver hands‑on aircraft maintenance in a safety‑critical environment
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. We’re looking for a Mechanical Technician to join our Aviation business, based on site at RAF Valley (Holyhead), supporting our Early Rectification maintenance activity.
This is a skilled, hands‑on role where you’ll carry out a range of mechanical maintenance and rectification tasks on aircraft and aircraft components, working to approved data and strict safety and quality standards.
The role
As a Mechanical Technician, you’ll operate within an Early Rectification maintenance environment, undertaking detailed mechanical activities to support aircraft availability and operational readiness. You’ll work independently to approved technical information while also supporting and guiding less‑experienced team members when required
Day-to-day, you will:
- Carry out mechanical maintenance, inspections, repairs, and fault rectification on aircraft or components
- Diagnose faults and apply approved maintenance and rectification procedures
- Complete all work in line with approved technical data, MOE requirements, and safety standards
- Maintain accurate documentation and records for all maintenance activities
- Support compliance activities, including tooling control and adherence to mandated procedures.
This is a full‑time, permanent role, working 36 hours per week plus shift allowance, based on site at RAF Valley.
Essential experience of the Mechanical Technician:
- A practical, safety‑focused technician with strong mechanical aptitude
- Ability to analyse faults and follow structured diagnostic processes
- Confidence working independently to approved data and instructions
- A collaborative team player with a proactive and flexible approach.
Qualifications for the Mechanical Technician:
Completed a recognised mechanical or aeronautical engineering apprenticeship or equivalent trade training.
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: 15/06/2026
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