Job Title: Touring Pilot
Location: Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
Compensation: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF73061
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 Pilot normally based at Gloucestershire Airport near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
This is an exciting opportunity to join Babcock Mission Critical Services Onshore (BMCSO), a leading provider of mission-critical helicopter services for the Air Ambulance, Police, and Offshore sectors. With over 35 years of experience and more than 30,000 missions annually, our state-of-the-art fleet and highly qualified personnel deliver world-class operations, saving lives and protecting communities every day. We take pride in our vital role in these essential services.
The role
The Touring Pilot role offers varied and challenging flying across a range of disciplines including HEMS, Police and NVIS operations. As a Pilot at Gloucestershire Airport, Babcock, you'll have a role that's out of the ordinary. This position offers a unique opportunity for an individual with excellent situational awareness and strong decision-making abilities under pressure to make a significant impact. You'll be flying a state-of-the-art EC135 and EC145 on both day and night Helicopter Emergency missions, providing urgent medical care and transporting patients in emergency situations. You'll be part of a highly skilled team where your expertise and quick decision-making will be crucial to our operations.
Day-to-day you'll be:
- Ensuring the safety of aircraft, crew and passengers during all operations.
- Responding effectively to emergency and mission-critical situations.
- Conducting HEMS, Police and NVIS flying operations in accordance with operational procedures.
- Managing operational records, flight documentation and regulatory compliance requirements.
- Maintaining exceptional professional and safety standards across all flying activities.
This role is full time usually based on site at Gloucestershire Airport, near Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
Essential experience of the Pilot
- Either 1,000 hours Pilot in Command, including 500 hours Pilot in Command on twin turbine helicopters, or 1,000 hours as Co-Pilot in HEMS/Police operations, including 500 hours Pilot in Command Under Supervision and 100 hours Pilot in Command on twin turbine helicopters.
- Minimum 2,000 hours total helicopter flying experience.
- Minimum 500 hours operating experience on twin turbine helicopters in a comparable operational environment.
- Current or recent HEMS experience and experience of NVIS operations.
- Recent multi-engine helicopter experience and a minimum of 20 hours VFR night flying as Pilot in Command.
Qualifications for the Pilot
- UK ATPL(H) or CPL(H) with Instrument Rating (IR).
- Full UK Aviation Class 1 Medical
- Fluent English, Driving Licence, Passport, Right to Work in the UK
- Be qualified and instrument rated on the EC135/H145 (desirable)
- Have current or recent UK HEMS/Police experience (desirable)
- Have experience of NVIS operations (desirable)
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must have the ability to achieve and maintain Standard (BPSS) security clearance for this role. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK
What we offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Private Medical Insurance
- Loss of Licence Insurance
- Market leading sick leave policy
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- Employee share scheme
- 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.
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're a CAA Class 1 Medical holder but 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.
Closing date: 02/09/2026
