Asset Suppression Team Leader

Job Title: Asset Suppression Team Leader

Salary: Competitive

Location: Taif, Saudi Arabia

JOB PURPOSE 

BAE Systems is the UK Government’s nominated Prime Contractor under the Government-to-Government arrangements that are in place to provide equipment, support and training to Saudi Arabia.  We provide maintenance of Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) aircraft and train RSAF and Royal Saudi Naval Force personnel safely in a training environment in how to use their aircraft, equipment and weapons. 

BAE Systems Saudi Arabia is committed to supporting the Saudi Arabian National Agenda including Saudisation and the training and development of Saudi National capability through the growth of the Saudi National Partner Companies thereby reinforcing Industrialisation and Partnerships.

To support and enhance tactical and strategic asset management through the identification, prioritisation and control of key assets that directly influence fleet performance, particularly aircraft availability KPMs, ensuring the organisation sustains current SSS Ph4 performance levels and is positioned to meet future Ph5 requirements.

To lead and manage the established Asset Suppression Team ensuring asset control within the operational environment is fully optimised. This includes driving robust management practices, identifying constraints, inefficiencies and single point criticalities and delivering practical, data driven solutions, efficiencies and mitigations that reduce asset vulnerability and maintain or increase overall fleet availability.

JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES

·        Lead the Asset Suppression Team under the direction of the Salam Support Chain Optimisation Manager, ensuring the asset management process is fully optimised to reduce criticality and sustain or improve fleet availability across the RSAF Typhoon programme.

·        Identify and deliver mitigations that reduce individual asset criticality, preserve availability and drive measurable improvements in asset and platform performance.

·        Execute core team management responsibilities including resource allocation, task planning, prioritisation, of activities and completion of mandatory leadership duties such as training compliance, PDRs and performance oversight.

·        Ensure compliance with SHE requirements including adherence to local SHE plans, timely reporting of hazardous occurrences and accurate collation and submission of accident/incident data.

·        Build and maintain effective stakeholder relationships with RSAF customers, MODSAP, PC teams and Typhoon core programme personnel, ensuring strong tactical and strategic integration, coordinated mitigation activity and consistent stakeholder engagement.

·        Provide regular reporting on findings, status, achievements and performance indicators, ensuring transparency and informed decision making.

·        Support Taif Operational and Management Reviews through the provision of data, analysis, recommendations and updates relating to asset suppression activities.

·        Contribute to Engineering and Life Cycle Management activities as required, including engineering change definition, capability insertion and the promotion of Learning from Experience (LfE) into future contract negotiations and programme improvements.