Job Title: Continuing Airworthiness Engineer
Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire + Occasional Travel to Other UK Sites
Compensation: £75,000 - £82,000 dependent on experience + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF71458
Create a safer, more secure world with Babcock
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Continuing Airworthiness Engineer at Gloucestershire Airport Limited, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
The role
As a Continuing Airworthiness Engineer, you’ll play a vital role in ensuring the safe, efficient and compliant delivery of continuing airworthiness services across Babcock’s fleet. This is an exciting opportunity to work on a diverse range of aircraft, supporting critical aviation operations while developing your technical expertise and growing your influence within a collaborative engineering environment.
Day-to-day, you will:
- Develop Approved Maintenance Programmes by reviewing Type Certificate Holder and regulatory instructions such as Airworthiness Directives and Service Bulletins.
- Create and schedule maintenance programme tasks within the Maintenance Information System (RAMCO).
- Support the Maintenance Review Board through data analysis and performance insights.
- Manage technical enquiries including repair scheme requests and continuing airworthiness clarifications.
- Ensure Mass and Balance reports reflect aircraft configuration accurately.
This role is full‑time working 40 hours per week and is based on site, working Monday–Friday, 8:00–17:00, with occasional travel to other UK locations as required.
Essential experience of the Continuing Airworthiness Engineer:
- Experience working within a Continuing Airworthiness Management Organisation in a Commercial Air Transport environment.
- Background suitable to be nominated for an Airworthiness Review position (SRG 1769/AD458).
- Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Excel reporting.
- Experience engaging stakeholders and presenting to senior managers.
- Team leadership experience (from any setting).
Qualifications for the Continuing Airworthiness Engineer:
- Aircraft engineering experience with systems knowledge, maintenance processes and standards (helicopter experience desirable).
- Current detailed knowledge of CAA Part CAMO, Part M, Part 145 and BCAR regulations.
- Formal management, supervisory or business administration training (desirable).
- Considerable relevant experience within the Aeronautical industry, or equivalent combination of Aeronautical degree and experience within Part CAMO.
- Part 66 qualification with considerable Certifying Staff experience — ideally EC135 & BK117 — plus Part 145 line and base maintenance experience.
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 [email protected] 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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