Remote Piloted Aircraft System Maintainer - Tewkesbury, United Kingdom - Babcock International
Description
Remote Piloted Aircraft System Maintainer:
- Location: Gloucester, GB, GL20 8LZ
- Onsite or Hybrid: OnSite
Job Title:
Remote Piloted Aircraft System Maintainer
Location:
Tewkesbury, Gloucester + International Deployment
Compensation:
Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type:
Full time / Permanent
Role ID:
SF56891
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 Remote Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) Maintainer at our Ashchurch site.
The role
As a RPAS Maintainer, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. We are creating a new capability, providing remotely piloted aircrafts with mission durations measured in days, not hours.
This new and exciting role will be part of a team delivering a service to our customers providing this unique capability wherever they need it, globally.
Day-to-day, you'll launch, recover and maintain this unique platform and deliver world class unmanned capabilities around the UK and beyond.
Working within the team you will also be a key part of the planning activities working closely with our civil, military and government customers.
- Carrying out repairs and scheduled servicing to unmanned aerial vehicles to aviation standards
- Airframe and component preparation/assembly and sensor/payload installation and setup
- Preparation and repair of wiring harness including avionics and autopilot integration
- Quality control and bench testing
- Delivery of key customer missions as well as customer and industry demonstrations
- Communicate and work with our design engineers to facilitate constant improvements to our capabilities and products
This role is full time and will be based onsite at Ashchurch however, you must be able and willing to travel overseas as the role entails international deployment on a rotational basis.
Essential experience of the RPAS Maintainer
- Ability to understand instructions to prepare onboard processing and compiling of code
- Knowledge of common sensors including camera, optical and lens principles
- Experience with LiDAR, RADAR, SIGINT, COMINT and ELINT
- Understanding of the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) industry
- Radio communications with Air Traffic Control and other team members
- Understanding of ISO/quality control principles
Qualifications for the RPAS Maintainer
- You will hold a degree or Higher National Qualification in a relevant engineering field or provide evidence that you hold relevant experience in an engineering role that is equivalent to these qualifications
Security Clearance
What we offer
- Deployment allowance
- 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 10days 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
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.
Closing date: 30/04/2024
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