Senior Air Traffic Assistant

Job Title:                      Senior Air Traffic Control Assistant

Location:                      Peterborough, Cambridgeshire

Compensation:            £32,995.40 + Benefits

Role Type:                    Full time / Permanent

Role ID:                         SF76318

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 Senior Air Traffic Control Assistant at our RAF Wittering site.

The role

As a Senior Air Traffic Control Assistant, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You'll support the delivery of essential air traffic services and airfield operations, ensuring contractual and customer requirements are met safely and effectively. You'll supervise and lead the Air Traffic Control Assistant team, oversee rostering and competency management, and contribute to the continued development of operational standards and safety practices.

Day-to-day, you'll be required to:

• Lead and supervise the Air Traffic Control Assistant team, ensuring operational cover and competency requirements are maintained.
• Support Air Traffic Control personnel and wider flying operations to meet customer and contractual needs.
• Deliver airfield-related training and presentations, including airfield driving, road safety and Foreign Object Debris (FOD) awareness.
• Issue airfield driving permits and support flight planning activities.
• Assist with safety management activities, training programmes, risk assessments and continuous improvement initiatives.

This role is full time, 40 hours per week and is based on site at RAF Wittering. Shift patterns and working times may vary to meet operational and customer requirements and will include weekend working when required.

Essential experience of the Senior Air Traffic Control Assistant  

• Previous experience mentoring, training and supporting colleagues within an operational environment.
• Experience obtaining, processing and disseminating meteorological information accurately and within required timescales.
• Experience supporting flight planning activities, including NOTAM preparation and flight activity recording.
• Knowledge of operational airfield or air traffic control support environments.
• Experience working within regulated procedures and maintaining accurate operational documentation.

Qualifications for the Senior Air Traffic Control Assistant  

• Previous Air Traffic Control Assistant experience.
• Strong IT skills, including Microsoft Word and Excel.
• Full UK driving licence.
• Meteorological Observer certification is desirable.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Counter Terrorist Check (CTC) and DBS clearance 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 29,000 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: 27/11/2026

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