Maintenance Optimisation Senior Engineer

Job Description

Job Title: Maintenance Optimisation Senior 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: £47,683+ dependant on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• You will be analysing, understanding and interpreting in-service maintenance data to generate a view of how equipment performance and associated maintenance burden impacts on availability
• This role will require you to provide at shoulder support to the on-base teams to aid fault diagnostics and subsequent rectification using known good fixes
• Ensure you are analysing, understanding and interpreting aircraft maintenance data to identify root causes of RMT (Reliability, Maintainability and Testability) issues
• Building robust relationships with the on-base maintenance community to ensure that experience and operating practices are taken into account during the analysis (Maintenance adherence)
• You will ensure you share best practice across all BAE Systems supported Typhoon operators
• This role will require you to liaise with multiple key stakeholders e.g. Engineering, Supply Chain, Maintenance, Procurement and Commercial functions to identify suitable recommendations for fixes in a dynamic timescale

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Previous on aircraft experience – ideal candidates will have P&D (Production and Development)/Rig/final assembly/on-base customer facing based knowledge
• Familiar with Typhoon aircraft monitoring, recording/reporting and maintenance toolsets/data i.e. ESS/IMS
• Experience with Typhoon engineering data/toolsets (TrilogiView/PLM)

Desirable:

• Experience in an aerospace environment with a sound knowledge of aircraft systems/equipment and maintenance activities (Structures, flight sciences, aerodynamics, systems)
• A Degree or HNC/D (or equivalent) in a STEM discipline or equivalent relevant experience
• IT literate with particular emphasis on MS Office Suite and especially Excel

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 Global Reliability and Maintenance Programme team:

The Global Reliability and Maintenance Programme Team has a primary role of increasing the availability and reducing the through life cost of ownership of the Typhoon aircraft for all customers. This is achieved through analysing aircraft maintenance data and engaging with the Operators to understand:

• Aircraft on ground issues

• Key unscheduled and scheduled maintenance drivers

• Maintenance adherence issues

• No Fault Found issues

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 underrepresented 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.

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: 5th December 2024

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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