Job Title: Maintenance Support Engineer

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

Salary: £41,361

What you’ll be doing:

• Identifying, supporting and facilitating critical equipment Reliability Centred Maintenance studies, coordinating actions and outputs, and planning asset care strategies

• Identifying Root Cause Analysis for equipment failures, facilitating investigations and coordinating outputs and corrective actions

• Planning, preparing and establishing new asset Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM’s), ensuring topicality and appropriateness of existing PPM’s, and identifying, planning and establishing First Line Maintenance (FLM’s)

• Coordinating and facilitating asset risk and criticality assessments, collating outputs, customer feedback and IBP inputs, toolset review and improvements

• Supporting manufacturing resilience and strategy optimisation

• Departmental KPI’s and reporting, internal and external audit support

• EAM management and administration

• Investigations into new technologies to enhance departmental capabilities and modernisation

Your skills and experiences:

Essential

• Sound understanding of manufacturing maintenance and asset management, with experience of managing planned and reactive work

• Demonstrable experience of managing varied stakeholders from senior management to shopfloor workers with an ability to collaborate and negotiate.

• Experience of using maintenance management software systems to manage planned and unplanned work

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 Operations Maintenance Team team:

Maintenance Support Engineer within the Operations Maintenance Team, based at our Samlesbury site, to provide technical problem solving, CI and maintenance toolset optimisation in support of manufacturing asset capability and sustainment.

The Operations Maintenance team is accountable for asset management and the sustainment of manufacturing plant and equipment across a range of aircraft programmes.Within this scope, the team is responsible for the coordination of planned internal and outsourced asset maintenance, service records and document management, supporting activities to ensure asset resilience, availability and reliability, facilitating targeted root causes of equipment failures and reliability centred maintenance (RCM) studies into business critical plant and equipment.

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: 20th 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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