Engineering Safety and Compliance Officer

Job Title:                     Engineering Safety and Compliance Officer

Location:                     Cheltenham, Gloucestershire

Compensation:           £40,000 - £50,000 + Benefits

Role Type:                   Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                       SF71653

Help us protect aviation safety and shape continuous improvement across Babcock

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Engineering Safety and Compliance Officer at Staverton, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

The role

As an Engineering Safety and Compliance Officer, you’ll support and enhance safety, quality and regulatory compliance across our Part‑145 and CAMO engineering operations. You’ll take responsibility for processing and managing safety occurrences, coordinating technical assessments, supporting audit activity, and helping the business meet the highest aviation safety standards. This role offers you the opportunity to work alongside subject matter experts, engineering leaders and compliance teams, making a meaningful impact on operational safety and continuous improvement.

Day-to-day, you will:

• Conduct and coordinate engineering occurrence investigations and human factors investigations, including trend analysis.
• Serve as the focal point for CAMO and Part‑145 audit outputs, coordinating responses to any non‑compliance findings.
• Support department heads with root cause analysis and the development of corrective and preventive actions.
• Work with the Engineering Management Team to ensure procedures meet regulatory standards and are consistently applied during maintenance.
• Support continuous improvement and ensure workforce competency through appropriate training, assessment and guidance.

This is a full‑time role, working 40 hours per week and is based on site at Gloucestershire Airport, Staverton.

Essential experience of the Engineering Safety and Compliance Officer:

• Strong working knowledge and experience within a Part‑145 commercial aircraft maintenance environment.
• Ability to communicate effectively at all levels and maintain strong relationships with internal teams and regulators.
• Knowledge of Part‑145, Part‑CAMO and Part‑66 regulations, with proven ability to apply them effectively.
• Experience within the rotary maintenance environment (desirable).
• Experience working with OEMs or service providers (desirable).

Qualifications for the Engineering Safety and Compliance Officer:

• Foundation Degree in Aerospace Engineering; or
• Aerospace Apprenticeship with considerable industry experience, ideally holding a Part‑66 AML.

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: 11/03/2026

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