Survival Equipment Technician

Job Title: Survival Equipment Technician

Location: Lincolnshire, England

Compensation: £34,316.10 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF72493

Help protect lives through specialist aviation safety equipment

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Survival Equipment Technician at Royal Air Force Cranwell, supporting critical aviation operations through the maintenance and assurance of life‑saving equipment.

The role

As a Survival Equipment Technician, you will carry out scheduled maintenance and repairs to any/all RAF Survival Equipment and Aircrew Equipment Assemblies as required to always meet or exceed customer expectations and HADES contractual needs.

Day-to-day, you’ll schedule the maintenance of Survival Equipment and Aircrew Equipment Assemblies, as well as:

• Periodic, after use and corrective maintenance of wet/dry drill equipment.
• Maintenance documentation and record to be maintained IAW current regulations.
• Calibration and recording of Torque tools as and when required.
• MOD form 760 and 765 raised and submitted, as necessary.

This is a full‑time, onsite role, working 39 hours per week, Monday to Friday.

Essential experience of the Survival Equipment Technician :

• Experience of Parachute maintenance and packing.
• Experience of Life Raft maintenance and packing.

Qualifications for the Survival Equipment Technician :

• RAF Survival Equipment Course or civilian equivalent.
• Q-SE-AC or Q-AV-MED.
• RAF Flying Clothing Maintenance and Fitting.

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 ( .

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: 21/04/2026

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