Job Description

Job Title: Maintenance Plumber

Location: Barrow-in-Furness – Onsite

Salary: £37,318

What you’ll be doing:

  • Conducting water treatment tasks, including temperature checks and dosing
  • Carrying out Maintenance and Repairs to industrial pipework systems. (Such as Propane, Oxygen, Argon, C02, Nitrogen, Natural Gas, Bulk Water)
  • Carrying out Reactive and Planned maintenance on Domestic Systems (Heating Systems, Hot & Cold-Water Supplies, Effluent)
  • Performing maintenance and repair on industrial heating appliances, including gas-fired AHUs and overhead radiant heaters
  • Performing testing of fire protection sprinkler systems
  • Engaging with both internal and external stakeholders, as well as collaborating with cross-functional customers

Your skills and experiences:

Essential

  • Time served Plumber with Qualifications (City and Guilds or NVQ3, Trade papers to be provided upon application)
  • Knowledge and understanding of Water regulations

Desirable:

  • Experience in a Commercial/industrial Environment
  • Legionella Awareness
  • An understanding of safe systems of work
  • Commercial Gas Qualifications, ACS Gas Qualifications – Commercial – COCN1, CIGA1, ICPN1, CDGA1, BMP1,TPCP1, Domestic – CCN1, Cenwat, CKR1, CPA1

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.

The Plant Maintenance Plumbing team:

Join our dedicated Plant Maintenance Plumbing team, where you’ll handle both reactive and planned maintenance tasks across the impressive Devonshire Dock Complex and the expansive Barrow Site. This role offers fantastic opportunities for further training and career development, helping you grow and advance in your career. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

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, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also 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.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, who are BAE Systems employees and have been in their current role for 12 months or longer.

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: 16th April 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
Relocation packages
Neo-natal leave
LinkedIn learning license
In house training

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