Qualified Flying Instructor

Job Title:                 Qualified Flying Instructor
Location:                 Yeovilton, Somerset
Compensation:       £67,031 + Benefits
Role Type:               Full time / Permanent
Role ID:                   SF58063

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 Qualified Flying Instructor at our Yeovilton site.

The role

As a Qualified Flying Instructor, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. Make a difference with us by providing flying training using Grob 115E aircraft, in a fast paced, challenging and real-life operational setting critical to future defence output.

Day-to-day, you’ll support dedicated students on a 31 hour flying syllabus that caters to elements such as nav, aerobatics. You will attending briefings to identify weather conditions for the day before joining preparation briefings before flying sessions with your students. You will also:

• Ensure that all other related support activities and services are provided under the direction of the Site Operations Manager and Flight Commander

This role is full time 40 hours per week and is based on site at Yeovilton.

Essential experience of the Qualified Flying Instructor

• Flying instructional experience

Qualifications for the Qualified Flying Instructor

• UK or JAA CPL(A) SEP, IR and FI (unrestricted) rating including Class 1 medical.

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

• Flexible working – we give people more options to better integrate their work and personal life, whilst ensuring that business needs are met.
• Generous holiday allowance 
• Matched contribution pension scheme, 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 the majority of 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  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: 15/07/2024

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