Licenced Rotary Engineer

Job Title:             Licenced Rotary Engineer
Location:             Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Compensation:   £60,000 - £70,000+ Benefits
Role Type:           Full time / Permanent 
Role ID:               SF66947

Keep life-saving helicopters mission-ready – join us as a Licenced Rotary Engineer.

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as a Licenced Rotary Engineer at Staverton, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

The role
As a Licenced Rotary Engineer, you’ll be part of a highly skilled team maintaining a fleet of helicopters that deliver critical air ambulance services across the UK. From detailed inspections to full rebuilds, your work will ensure these aircraft remain safe, reliable, and ready for emergency missions. This is a hands-on role where precision and expertise make a real difference to communities and lives.

Day-to-day you’ll be required to:
•    Perform detailed inspections and acceptance checks on incoming aircraft.
•    Strip down helicopters for scheduled maintenance, using borescope cameras to inspect engines and critical components.
•    Conduct system checks and critical maintenance tasks to ensure airworthiness.
•    Lead the full rebuild process, reassembling aircraft to operational standards after major inspections.
•    Work closely with other engineers to maintain compliance with aviation safety regulations.

This role is full time, 40 hours per week and is based on site at Staverton (Gloucestershire Airport).

Essential experience of the Licenced Rotary Engineer:

•    Significant experience working with helicopters in a maintenance or engineering capacity. 
•    Proven background as a base maintenance line engineer.

Qualifications for the Licenced Rotary Engineer:

• Progress toward a CAA Part-66 Licence, ideally having completed around 10 modules (12 required for full certification).
• Possession of, or eligibility for, a B1.3 Licence (covering turbine helicopters).
• Candidates close to licensing will be considered, with training support available for those willing to commit to a 3-year bond with Babcock.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain 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 (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 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 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
• 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 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: 05/12/2025

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