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Job Title: Maintenance Engineer

Location: Portsmouth Naval Base – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Circa £41,000 (depending on skills and experience)

What you’ll be doing:

  • Producing optimised maintenance work-packages for allocated platform class using analysis of UMMS database, ships staff feedback and outputs from improved condition monitoring / material state assessments
  • Assessing maintenance costs and defect trend/prediction across the class, investigating to identify underlying root causes
  • Maintaining continuous assessment of material state for designated platform / systems, monitoring and updating as required
  • Report weekly performance
  • Producing well written and explicit work packages which can be readily planned and estimated by the delivery teams
  • Reflect maintenance pertaining to classification within the work package
  • Maintaining effective relationships within the COM (Class Output Management) and Waterfront Service Provider as well as engineers across the wider enterprise (Partner / Supplier communities)

Your skills and experiences:

  • ONC/HNC/HND/Degree level education in an engineering discipline or equivalent working experience
  • Specialist engineering knowledge and experience in a subject area
  • Working knowledge of the engineering lifecycle
  • Aware of and adhere to statutory regulations (including those of Information Systems, Safety Health & Environment and Security Requirements)

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Maintenance Management team:

As a Maintenance Engineer, you will be responsible for producing optimised work packages using scheduled information extracted from the Unit Maintenance Management System (UMMS) database and undertaking detailed root cause analysis of material state and failure trends, to enable work packages to be optimised. This role will provide you with the opportunity to work with various stakeholders both internally and externally. There will be opportunities for wider development within BAE Systems

As the world has evolved, so has the way we work. Our working approach, will enable you to have flexibility with your working hours, depending on your role and location. This could include accruing hours as well as flexibility around start and finish times, ensuring you can balance life at work, on site and life at home

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: 22nd May 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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Company benefits

Enhanced maternity leave – Up to 52 weeks with the option of returning to work on reduced hours for the first 13 weeks
Enhanced paternity leave – 4 weeks for eligible employees
Adoption leave
Open to part-time employees
Open to job sharing
Open to compressed hours
Open to part time work for some roles
Gym membership – Discounts available
Buy or sell annual leave
Share options
Salary sacrifice
Employee discounts
Lunch and learns
Enhanced pension match/contribution
Mental health first aiders
Health insurance
Family health insurance
Annual bonus
Shared parental leave
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
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