Avionics Engineer B2

As an Avionics Engineer, you'll be responsible for maintaining, repairing and troubleshooting advanced aircraft avionics and electrical systems, helping to ensure the safe flying of aircraft in line with customer expectations. Working closely with the Avionics Supervisor and Maintenance team, you'll play a key role in supporting maintenance plans, achieving operational milestones and maintaining the highest standards of aviation safety and compliance. Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

• Carry out planned line and base maintenance activities on rotary aircraft and avionics systems.
• Rectify deferred and carry-forward defects in accordance with approved maintenance procedures and the Minimum Equipment List.
• Diagnose, troubleshooting and repairing avionics and electrical systems to maintain aircraft availability and airworthiness.
• Ensure serviceable tools, equipment, materials and airworthiness data are available to support maintenance activities.
• Liaise professionally with colleagues and customers while maintaining the highest standards of safety, quality and regulatory compliance.
This role is full time, 40 hours per week and is based on site at Staverton (Gloucestershire Airport).

Essential experience of the Avionics Engineer B2
• Experience maintaining and repairing aircraft avionics systems within a line or base maintenance environment.
• Proven fault-finding and rectification experience on avionics and electrical systems.
• Knowledge of aviation maintenance procedures, tooling control and ground support equipment.
• Understanding of Safety Management Systems and aviation flight safety principles.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to complete technical documentation accurately.
Qualifications for the Avionics Engineer B2
• Must hold a valid CAA part 66 B2 AML (preferred with EC- 135 and or H-145 type ratings).
• Basic IT Skills
• Valid UK driving license.
• Line/Base Avionic Maintenance experience
• Rotary experience
Security Clearance The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role.

At Babcock, we're working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Avionics Engineer at Gloucestershire Airport, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire. This is an exciting opportunity to join our Aviation business, supporting rotary aircraft operations that play a vital role in delivering essential services. Working within a highly skilled maintenance team, you'll help ensure aircraft remain safe, airworthy and available when needed. Every day brings new technical challenges, opportunities to develop your expertise, and the chance to contribute directly to operational excellence in a dynamic aviation environment., We're Babcock - a global FTSE 100 organisation with over 29,000 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.


• Competitive salary
• 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 share scheme
• 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 the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
• '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
• Flexible working - we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met
• A dynamic working environment