Job Title: Photographer
Location: Buckinghamshire, England
Compensation: £27,276.60 + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF74332
Capture moments that matter in a unique defence environment
At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Photographer at RAF Halton, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire.
The role
As a Photographer, you’ll play a vital role in delivering high-quality photographic and video content that supports military training and key events. Working within a specialist media team, you’ll capture impactful moments ranging from recruit training milestones to senior personnel engagements.
This is an exciting opportunity to combine creative expertise with purpose, supporting essential defence operations while developing your technical skills in a highly varied environment.
Day-to-day, you will be:
- Capturing high-quality photographs and video content across training, events, and official engagements
- Supporting recruit training activities, including group photography and graduation events
- Collaborating with internal stakeholders to deliver visual media aligned to operational requirements
- Managing photographic tasks, workflows, and priorities within the department
- Maintaining photographic standards, equipment, and performance data in line with team objectives.
This role is full time, based on site at RAF Halton, working 39 hours per week (Monday to Thursday 08:00–17:00, Friday 09:00–16:00). Occasional travel to training locations including Bramley and Crickhowell will be expected.
Essential experience of the Photographer:
- Demonstrating strong technical knowledge of photography principles and equipment
- Applying video capture and editing skills using relevant software
- Working effectively in structured or regulated environments
- Showing an understanding of working within a military or similar environment
- Managing multiple tasks and delivering to deadlines.
Qualifications for the Photographer:
- HND or equivalent in Photography, Media, or a related discipline
- Full, valid UK driving licence.
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / Security Check (SC) 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: 19/06/2026
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