Air Movements Operative

Location:

Ruislip, London, GB, HA4 6NG

Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite

Job Title: Air Movements Operative

Location: Greater London, England

Compensation: £28,087.80 + Benefits

Role Type: Full time / Permanent

Role ID: SF70569

Support Critical Airside Activity at RAF Northolt

At Babcock, we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together. If you join us, you can play your part as an Air Movements Operative at RAF Northolt, near Ruislip, London.

The role

As an Air Movements Operative, you’ll be a vital member of the Movements Team, working directly with Royal Air Force personnel to support safe, efficient and professional airside operations. You’ll coordinate freight and baggage handling, support VIP movements, and play a key role in ensuring day‑to‑day military aviation activity runs smoothly.

You’ll engage confidently with RAF stakeholders, assist Babcock colleagues and external contractors, and uphold high standards of customer service and safety within a fast‑moving airside environment.

Day-to-day, you’ll have the following responsibilities:

Coordinate and support the safe movement of freight and baggage on and off aircraft and loading platforms.
Assist RAF personnel with VIP escorting duties and high‑priority passenger movements.
Work closely with RAF Movements staff, supporting a variety of operational tasks as needed.
Engage directly with RAF stakeholders and external contractors to ensure efficient daily operations.
Provide excellent customer service and represent Babcock professionally in all airside interactions.

This is a full‑time, permanent, onsite role working 37.5 hours per week at RAF Northolt.

Essential experience of the Air Movements Operative:

Strong face‑to‑face stakeholder engagement experience.
Excellent customer service skills and the ability to communicate confidently and diplomatically.
Ability to operate forklifts (training provided) — must hold a clean manual driving licence.
Good understanding of health and safety practices.

Qualifications for the Air Movements Operative:

Manual driving licence.
Good standard of written and verbal English and Maths.

Security Clearance

The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) / 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 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: 26/02/2026

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