Weapons Technician - Armament Supervisor

Job Title: Weapons Technician - Armament Supervisor
Location: Holyhead, Anglesey
Compensation: £31,779.49 + Benefits
Role Type: Full Time and Permanent
Role ID: SF54252

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 Weapons Technician - Armament Supervisor at our RAF Valley site.

The role
As a Weapons Technician / Armament Supervisor, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. The Weapons Technician -/ Armament Supervisor is responsible to the Seat Bay Senior Supervisor for safe, compliant and effective Ejection Seat Bay maintenance activities, role bay maintenance and AMRO ejection seat removal/installation in support of Hawk operations at RAF Valley.

Day to day, you'll ensure that all Ejection Seat tasks are completed in a safe and efficient manner, on time and to the highest standard, as well as:
* Check that all equipment required for tasking is available and reporting all deficiencies
* Maintain and prepare explosively operated equipment and pyrotechnics
* Monitor the work carried out by employees under his/her control to ensure that they conform to current regulations and that documentation is promptly and accurately completed. And monitoring the handling, distribution, and satisfaction of engineering instructions (MODs, RTI's, UTI's STIs, Sis, IEDB's etc.)
* Assist with the management of Staff Performance & Development. Ensuring only suitably trained, qualified and authorised personnel are used to complete work employing external suppliers.

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

Experience of the Weapons Technician / Armament Supervisor:
* Relevant current industry experience on ejection seats maintenance or a Completed a Martin Baker type ejection seat course
* Experience of working with AAES in a bay maintenance environment. And maintaining and arming/disarming of explosively operated equipment and pyrotechnics
* Training in relevant discipline Mechanical/Electrical to City and Guilds Level or level 3 equivalent (completed an apprenticeship)
* Working knowledge and use of IT Operating Systems (MS Office Suite) and the Internet.

Qualifications for the Weapons Technician / Armament Supervisor:
* We value difference and we don't have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

The successful candidate must be able to achieve BPSS security clearance for this role.

Our Benefits
* Generous holiday allowance
* Matched contribution pension scheme up to 6% of salary, with life assurance
* 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 most 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

Babcock International
For over a century Babcock International have 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.
If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know.

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.