Graduate Air Support Engineer Brough Hull September 2024

Job Title: Graduate Support Engineer
Location  – Brough (Hull)

BAE Systems do offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements, however it is expected on our Graduate Programme you will be required to attend your site 3-4 days per week. Please note, this may be subject to change in line with the needs of the business. The hybrid working arrangements including which days you are required to work on site/remotely will be outlined by your line manager.

Salary   – £34,000 + £2,000 Welcome Bonus 

At BAE Systems, we provide some of the world’s most advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions. We employ a skilled workforce of 93,100 people in around 40 countries. Working with customers and local partners, we develop, engineer, manufacture, and support products and systems to deliver military capability, protect national security, and keep critical information and infrastructure secure. 

What you will be doing

As a graduate engineer you would be expected to be involved in a number of areas in order to develop a broad understanding of the Through-Life Support Engineering function. 
Work in a fast growing discipline applying systems and supportability engineering principles to the development of concepts and designs for customer service operations. You’ll gain experience across a number of vital defence programmes providing next-generation capability for the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy. 
Support Engineering is a fast growing capability and covers the design influence and supportability of platforms that contributes an ever significant part of the business, recognising the development of an increasing digital systems engineering approach.

We also provide the opportunity to get involved in projects outside of your primary remit. We encourage you to seek a stretch project in which you’ll gain different experiences. With our huge portfolio of products and our multinational presence, there are opportunities to get involved in something different around every corner. Additionally, we encourage involvement in community projects, STEM initiatives and support groups (called employee resource groups) which all provide valuable learning and development experiences that you may not have access to in your day-to-day role. To ensure we retain our talented people, we offer a blend of sponsorship, additional support in career development planning and a portfolio of high potential development programmes.  We are also fully committed to supporting graduates to work towards professional registration and Chartership with a range of professional institutes (e.g. the IET and IMechE).  Our graduate scheme is accredited with a number of different professional institutes, which means that we have demonstrated high standards of delivery and support. 

Our mission is to build a strong, diverse, adaptable, and high performing work force that will develop and grow our future business. We believe that everyone has talent, and at the heart of our talent management approach our ambition is to be recognised as the UK’s top employer in the defence and security sector for valuing diversity and inclusion. Accelerated development will be offered to those who have the aspiration, ability, and performance to fulfil roles that are critical to our future success. Using The Future Talent Programme, we select high potential graduates and provide them with further tailored development opportunities.

Specific activities could include:

•    Engagement with customers, and understanding their needs and translating these in to support solution requirements
•    Modelling service solution performance and integrity
•    To Derive maintenance tasks through analysis  
•    Influencing designs and performing reliability and spares predictions and including producing supporting technical documentation. 
•    Reliability Analysis – to interrogate and analyse design and supplier data including virtual and digital model based environments in order to influence and qualify product design and support solutions and requirements
•    Maintainability – utilising design and customer support and service data identify maintenance optimisations to provide efficient Maintenance Policies, Schedules and Procedures
•    Technical Documentation – research, originate and edit technical information and supporting data to create, update and publish design approved data
•    Mission Support – Improvement and delivery of state-of-the-art mission planning and support services
•    Product Support – support air and ground crew with understanding the operational and maintenance needs of their aircraft to help them complete their mission.

Skills
As a minimum requirement you’ll need to have obtained, or be predicted to obtain, a 2.2 in your Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in  Aerospace Engineering or STEM

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.   

Team 
Improving the future and protecting lives is an ambitious mission, but it’s what we do at BAE Systems. A career here means using your passion and ingenuity to defend national security with breakthrough technology and intelligence solutions. It’s rewarding work that truly makes a difference. And as you tackle critical projects, you’ll work alongside a supportive team – driven by a shared ambition to protect what really matters. At BAE Systems, you’ll find an extraordinary career where you can realize your true potential.  

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 under represented 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.

Export Control / Security
Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.
 

 Aerospace Engineering or STEM