Aircraft Maintenance Team Leader

Job Title:                     Aircraft Maintenance Team Leader

Location:                     Lincolnshire, England

Compensation:           £41,871 + £4,500 Shift Allowance + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF75130

Lead the engineering team behind one of the world's most iconic aerobatic display teams

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Aircraft Maintenance Team Leader at RAF Waddington, near Lincoln, Lincolnshire.

The role

As an Aircraft Maintenance Team Leader, you'll play a critical role in supporting the Royal Air Force Aerobatic Team, the Red Arrows. Working within a unique operational environment, you'll lead and manage a team of aviation professionals responsible for maintaining aircraft airworthiness and ensuring the highest standards of safety, performance, and engineering excellence.

This is an exceptional opportunity for an experienced aviation leader to combine technical expertise with people management responsibilities while supporting one of the most recognised aviation teams in the world. You'll contribute directly to operational success, lead continuous improvement initiatives, and help develop the next generation of aircraft maintenance professionals.

Day-to-day, you will be:

• Leading and managing aircraft maintenance personnel to ensure safe and effective engineering operations.
• Maintaining the highest standards of workmanship and regulatory compliance within a Military Aviation Authority approved environment.
• Supporting personnel management activities, including absence management, welfare support, and team development.
• Monitoring engineering competency and experience records to ensure personnel remain compliant and current.
• Coordinating manpower support and engineering resources for UK and overseas detachments.

This role is full time and based on site at RAF Waddington. Shift patterns operate Monday to Friday with a mixture of early and late shifts, with exact timings discussed during the interview process.

Essential experience of the Aircraft Maintenance Team Leader:

• Significant supervisory or management experience within an aircraft maintenance environment.
• Strong knowledge of aviation engineering operations and airworthiness requirements.
• Experience working with Quality Management Systems and Air Safety Management Systems.
• Senior leadership or management experience with responsibility for people, performance, and operational delivery.
• Experience promoting Health, Safety and Environmental standards and driving a positive safety culture.

Qualifications for the Aircraft Maintenance Team Leader:

• City & Guilds Level 3 qualification in an aircraft-related discipline, or equivalent.
• Level 4 Diploma or NVQ Level 4 in Management and Leadership, or equivalent experience.

• Experience supporting Hawk aircraft or comparable fast-jet platforms (desirable)

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 careers@babcockinternational.com 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: 14/08/2026

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