Air

We serve and protect those who serve and protect us. Attracting and retaining the sharpest minds is essential for a globally competitive UK Air Business. Our aim is to recruit the very best talent. At BAE we want to be the leading employer in defence and security for valuing diversity and inclusion. We care about difference in all forms and want to create an inclusive environment where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently under-represented within our industry, including women, people from ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to be a preferred home for veterans and reservists.

At BAE Systems we are committed to supporting work life balance for all our employees and embrace a range of modern working practices, which aim to enhance flexibility for individuals whilst also enabling business performance. Flexibility provisions vary by role, but include; hybrid working arrangements, flexible working patterns and shift working.

Our Air Business

If you’d like to make a real difference where it counts, BAE Systems is the place for you.

From keeping soldiers, sailors and pilots safe to helping countries prosper, from developing the next generation of supersonic aircraft to investing in the next generation of super-smart talent – at BAE Systems, we work together to give our customers an essential edge in protecting the things that really matter. Lives, livelihoods, ways of life.

As part of our Air team, you could be working at the edge of what is technologically possible, shaping the future to ensure our customers are ready to face challenges we cannot even imagine today. You could be developing and evolving the technologies that will defend the UK for generations to come and supporting our customers around the globe.

Join us and you’ll be encouraged and rewarded to excel in this important work. Apply your talent where it counts.

Through-Life Support and Information Engineer

Would you like to be part of a specialised team that influences the Support and Technical Information engineering of existing and exciting new platforms and services? We currently have vacancies for Through-Life Support and Information Engineer at our site in Warton.

As a Through-Life Support and Information Engineer, you will play a significant part and contribution for the Air business recognising the development of an increasing digital and systems engineering approach. You be involved in collecting, analysing and configuring maintenance data focusing on reliability and maintainability, looking at failures to sustain the safety of the aircraft.

This role offers a variety of opportunities to get involved in the reliability and influence the design across all aspects of Support Engineering from aerospace and adjacent sectors, such as maritime and land. Working on a number of different platforms, this role provides a wide breadth of work with a wide scope of influencing physical changes and the way we maintain aircraft in the future.

Your main responsibilities as a Through-Lift Support and Information Engineer will involve:

• To apply engineering analysis and support principles to influence the design and sustainment of platforms and systems.
• To create and update ‘As Supported’ configured data within Logistics Support databases and Technical Information toolsets.
• Utilise design and in-service data, and customer improvement queries and requests identify maintenance optimisations to provide efficient Maintenance Policies, Schedules and Procedures.
• Research, originate and edit technical information / manuals and supporting data to create, update and publish ‘design approved data’ to maintainers, suppliers and support personnel to national and international specifications.
• Provide advice external to the Through-Life Support function in order to manage in-service engineering support queries and customer technical information improvement requests.
• To support overall assessment, management and control of change across single and multiple platform variants and its subsequent effect on customer support solutions and approved data.
• Analyse safety requirements and hazards that may influence Support solutions and the requirement for the use of warnings and cautions in the technical information.

Your skills and qualifications:

Essential:

• Degree qualified in a relevant or related engineering field or equivalent relevant experience.
• A Support Engineering background or working in a maintenance / product service environment.
• An understanding of Maintainability and Reliability to determine where to place the most emphasis in designing platforms and systems and to upgrade them, and to identify design weaknesses from a through-life support perspective.
• Experience of use and authoring of technical documentation and manuals to investigate support.
• An understanding of how Support data is typically recorded as part of the Logistics Support Analysis Record (LSAR).
• Good IT Skills, including Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
• An understanding of National, International and Industry standards and support policies that are applicable to Aerospace and to Support Engineering activities.
• Knowledge of how Fleet and Maintenance Planning is performed and the records of relevant technical information maintained.

Desirable:

• Experience within an aircraft/ aerospace environment or a military background.
• Previous experience of using data analysis to mitigate changes and influence design.
• Knowledge of carrying out Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM) and the outputs that this analysis provides.

What we are looking for in you:

We are looking for enthusiastic and self-motivated individuals with effective communication and IT skills and who are keen to improve the support of products. You will need to have an ability to work with specialist staff and be adaptable to cross programme working where you can add value and share knowledge. We are also looking for those to contribute to develop future ways of working and capabilities utilising emerging processes for digital engineering and advanced information systems.

Location: Warton

Salary: Competitive

Benefits:

Our employees receive an excellent benefits package which includes a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. We also offer a range of additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and many local and national employee discounts. Some employees may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

BAE Systems

BAE Systems is one of the world’s leading global defence, security and aerospace companies. We work at the cutting edge of technology, creating more than 100 new inventions every year for customers in over 100 countries.

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/or your place of birth may limit those roles that you can perform for the organisation.

Due to the volume of applications we receive, we sometimes close our vacancies early. It is therefore advisable to apply as early as possible if you would like to be considered for a role with BAE Systems.

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