IT Customer Support Specialist

As an IT Customer Support Specialist, you'll play a vital role in supporting the UK Military Flying Training System by acting as a key interface between Ascent, Babcock Aerospace, and Babcock's internal IT provider. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a unique defence and aerospace environment, delivering exceptional IT support that helps ensure military flying training operations run smoothly and effectively. Day-to-day you'll be:

• Providing second-line IT support and acting as an escalation point for local operational IT issues.
• Supporting military trainees, instructors, and customer stakeholders to deliver an excellent user experience.
• Managing, maintaining, and troubleshooting IT hardware, telecommunications, and audio-visual equipment across the site.
• Delivering IT inductions and preparing equipment for new users joining the training environment.
• Configuring and deploying IT equipment to support classrooms, training facilities, and operational requirements.
The role is based onsite at RAF Shawbury, and the set working times are Monday to Friday, 37.5 hours per week. Ad hoc travel to RAF Valley and RAF Cranwell will be required.


• Experience providing second-line IT support.
• Experience supporting users within a Microsoft Windows environment.
• Strong customer service, communication, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Ability to build effective working relationships with colleagues and customers.
• Commercial awareness and an understanding of business priorities. Experience within a UK defence environment would be advantageous., We value difference and don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and/or willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you. However, a full UK driving licence is required for this role., The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
  
  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.

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