Avionic supervisor

Job title: Avionic Supervisor

Location: RAF Coningsby

Salary: £44,096+ depending on skills and experience. Also opportunities for Shift Pay.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Performing detailed maintenance, inspection, and supervisory tasks on Typhoon aircraft or aircraft components, ensuring all work is completed in line with relevant approved technical documentation. Diagnose and resolve faults and maintenance issues, including configuration management

• Overseeing maintenance tasks carried out by skilled personnel in accordance with approved data and toolsets, providing the appropriate levels of supervision and oversight. Ensuring accurate documentation for all maintenance activities and promptly addressing any issues with relevant business areas

• Leading and managing the combined team workforce on a day-to-day basis, ensuring full compliance with Company Policies, Quality Management, Health & Safety, and Environmental Protection standards

• Supporting and promoting career growth and personal development of team members while fostering an open, honest, and collaborative working environment within resource and task constraints

• Ensuring all deliverables meet required airworthiness standards, prioritising flight safety and full compliance with the airworthiness framework

• Demonstrating flexibility and a proactive approach by fulfilling both technician and supervisory duties as needed, and supporting night and day shifts as required (with associated pay allowances)

• Performing independent inspections, evaluating tasks, and compiling Job Inspection Certificates (JICs) as directed by the Team or Phase Leader

Your Skills and Experience:

Essential:

• Relevant industry or military equivalent apprenticeship completion/qualification (e.g City & Guilds 2675 or 2661 in Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance or equivalent)

• A minimum of 2 years recent Fast Jet aircraft supervisory experience within the aircraft maintenance environment

• An experienced and competent leader in a maintenance environment

• Strong knowledge and a solid understanding of quality procedures, processes, specifications, and Approved Maintenance Organisation standards (MAOS MIL Pt145)

• Excellent team player and communicator with strong motivation, problem-solving skills, and the ability to adapt and develop in dynamic situations

Desirable:

• Typhoon Aircraft “Q” qualification

• Strong knowledge of Depth Maintenance documentation

• Comprehensive understanding of Typhoon avionics system

• Knowledge of Resolve and raising System Enquiries

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

Join the Typhoon Maintenance Facility Team!

We are seeking dedicated professionals to join our team at the Typhoon Maintenance Facility (TMF) at RAF Coningsby.

In this role, you will collaborate with the Royal Air Force (RAF) to undertake a key position in the maintenance, repair, and upgrade activities for the UK Typhoon fleet. This area is a key part of the TyTAN (Typhoon Total Availability eNterprise) Support Contract which is a long-term enterprise solution & strategically important partnership between BAES, DE&S and the RAF to focus on a single aim: achieving operational output for the Typhoon Force, with UK bases at RAF Coningsby and RAF Lossiemouth.

You will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology, on a Fast Jet aircraft platform, working directly alongside RAF & other highly skilled personnel to deliver maintenance activities.

If you’re ready to be part of a high-performance team, working at the forefront of technological innovation and contributing to UK national defence, this is the role for you!

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 29th August 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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