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CNC Maintenance Electrician

BAE Systems
Washington, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 12 Dec 2025
💰 £39,301/yr

About the role

CNC Maintenance Electrician-00130336

Description

 

Job Title: CNC Maintenance Electrician

Location: Washington, Tyne & Wear

Salary: £39,301 plus 25% shift allowance

 

What you’ll be doing:

  • Site maintenance and installation activities

  • Minor/major repairs

  • Breakdown response and diagnostics to resolve manufacturing equipment issues

  • Support to contractors during technical works

  • Attendance at site operational meetings as required

  • Execution of work orders from the site CMMS

  • Update of work order details to maintain the asset database for the site on all works performed

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

  • 17th/18th Edition Wiring Regulation Qualification

  • Experience on CNC machines in an industrial background

  • Time served Electrician (HNC/HND desirable)

  • Working in a high paced manufacturing environment, typically on and around CNC machines

  • Safety qualifications (e.g. IOSH, working at height, MEWP licence, confined space)

Desirable:

  • HV/LV Switching

  • Testing and Inspection C&G 2391

  • Industrial Robots (Fanuc/ABB)

  • PLC Experience

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.

Maintenance Team:

As an Electrical Maintenance Technician, you will carry out a varied range of electrical activities that protect the Washington site and ensure capability for manufacturing teams to perform their duties. This will include planned maintenance, reactive breakdown response/repairs and work requests.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a growing team in a role where every day is different working on a variety of products.  We have several vacancies available due to the continued expansion across our Land UK sites with BAE Systems securing new orders for the supply of munitions to the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD).

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 Na

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