Maintenance Manager - Hawk

Babcock International Group; Valley; On-site; GBP 40,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

Job Title: Maintenance Manager - Hawk

Location: Holyhead, Anglesey

Compensation: Competitive

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF63383

At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Maintenance Manager at our RAF Valley site.

The role

As a Maintenance Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. The Hawk Maintenance Manager will control and manage personnel and resources on behalf of BAE Systems Air pertinent to all Flightline and Rectification activities in support of the Operational Flying requirement for the RAF.

Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:

1. Lead safety engagement, enhancement & accountability in line with the Safety Development Plan, Babcock customer and end user systems/processes within your AoR (Area Of Responsibility).
2. Demonstrate visible and transparent leadership to generate effective, consistent, and relevant two-way information flow, and improve employee experience in line with the Global People Survey action plan.
3. Ensure coherent maintenance planning/tasking and planning integration with customer led fleet planning, quantifying, and managing variation from agreed resource budgets and service scope within your AoR.
4. Manage workforce against agreed resource levels and role specific qualifications and experience requirements, within your AoR.
5. The overall Safety, Welfare and discipline of all assigned Prime and Sub-Contractor personnel in conjunction with the Management and Supervisory Team, equating to 130 engineering/support staff across multiple departments.

This role is full time and based onsite at RAF Valley.

Essential experience of the Maintenance Manager:

1. Previous Leadership experience and delegation of engineering authority and empowerment of personnel to carry out their duties effectively in order to meet the aims of the contract, whilst maintaining motivation of all assigned personnel.
2. Extensive experience in the maintenance and/or operation of Air systems and several years post qualification experience within a senior supervisory position within an operational environment.
3. Evidence in previous roles of Completion of all QA (Quality Assurance) and Higher technical reports. Ensuring adherence to the Safety, Health, Quality and Environmental program, and adherence to the Management System.
4. Previous Investigation of Safety incidents including follow up reports.

Qualifications for the Maintenance Manager:

1. Must be educated to HND/Degree level or recognised equivalent or have relevant experience supported by formal, recorded workplace applied related training.
2. Must have completed a recognised aircraft engineering apprenticeship in industry/military or similar qualification in aircraft systems engineering.

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

1. Generous holiday allowance
2. Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
3. Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
4. Employee share scheme
5. Employee shopping savings portal
6. Payment of Professional Fees
7. Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave.
8. 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.
9. ‘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.
10. Excellent development opportunities and benefits package including an employee assistance programme supporting physical, mental, and financial wellbeing.

Babcock International

For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.

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 [e-mail] 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: 22/04/2025
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