Avionic Supervisor

Coningsby, LN4 4RA, United Kingdom
7 months ago
Posted
16 Oct 2025 (7 months ago)

Job Title: Avionic Supervisor

Location: RAF Coningsby (Onsite)

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

The Typhoon Maintenance Facility (TMF) team:

As an Avionics Supervisor, you’ll work side by side with the Royal Air Force (RAF), playing a crucial part in the maintenance, repair, and upgrade of the UK’s state-of-the-art Typhoon fighter jet fleet. This isn’t just a job, it’s your chance to be part of TyTAN (Typhoon Total Availability eNterprise), a strategic, long-term collaboration between BAE Systems, DE&S, and the RAF, focused on one clear mission: delivering unmatched operational output for the Typhoon Force.

You’ll be immersed in hands-on work with cutting-edge aerospace technology, supporting one of the world’s most advanced Fast Jet platforms. Every day, you’ll collaborate with expert RAF personnel and industry professionals to keep the Typhoon flying at peak performance.

If you’re ready to make a real impact, contribute to UK national defence, and grow your career in a dynamic, future-facing environment, we want to hear from you.

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. Diagnosing and resolving faults and maintenance issues, including configuration management

Overseeing maintenance tasks 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

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 experiences:

Essential

Completion of a relevant industry or military-equivalent apprenticeship/qualification (e.g., City & Guilds 2675 or 2661 in Aeronautical Engineering and Maintenance), or equivalent, with proven supervisory experience in Fast Jet aircraft maintenance within a technical aviation environment

Proven knowledge and understanding of quality procedures, processes, specifications, and Approved Maintenance Organisation standards (MAOS MIL Pt145)

Knowledge of Depth Maintenance documentation and resolving and raising system enquiries

Leadership experience within a maintenance environment

Desirable

Typhoon Aircraft “Q” qualification

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.

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: 13th May 2026

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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