Senior Maintenance Engineer

Job Title: Senior Maintenance Engineer

Location: Portsmouth Naval Base – minimum of 3 days onsite per week

We offer a range of flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: Up to £48,000 (dependent on skills and experience)

Who we are:

Join BAE Systems and you’ll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you’ll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You’ll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow, shaping a safer future, for all of us.

From the depths of the ocean, to the far reaches of space, there’s no limit to where a career at BAE Systems could take you.

Role Description:

A key member of the Maintenance Management team within Asset Management. Responsible for producing accurate and optimised maintenance work packages using maintenance management toolsets, ensuring consistency through standardised processes and strong engineering governance.

Applies technical experience, defect trend analysis and material state insights to improve maintenance accuracy, demand planning and future forecasting. Drives continuous improvement by refining processes, enhancing data integrity and contributing to toolset development to support the evolving needs of current and future customers.

Core Duties:

• Producing optimised maintenance work-packages for allocated platform class using analysis of maintenance management systems, 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)

Essential Skills:

• You’ll hold ONC, HNC, HND or Degree‑level education in an Engineering discipline, or have equivalent relevant working experience
• You’ll have specialist engineering knowledge and experience in a subject area
• You’ll have a working knowledge of the engineering lifecycle
• You’ll be aware of and adhere to statutory regulations, including those relating to Information Systems, Safety, Health & Environment, and Security requirements

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers 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 Maintenance Management team:

As a Senior Maintenance Engineer, you will be responsible for producing optimised work packages using scheduled information extracted from the Maintenance Management System and undertaking detailed root cause analysis of material state and failure trends, to enable work packages to be optimised. The 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 lif