Field Services Engineer (Submarine Support)

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Field Service Engineer (Submarine Support)

Would you like to play a crucial role in the support of the Royal Navy’s Submarine Service? We currently have a vacancy for a mobile Field Service Engineer (Submarine Support) in our Maritime Services business. This will be a mobile role with travel required to predominantly UK-based locations such as Faslane, Devonport and Portsmouth.

As a Field Service Engineer, you will be working within a growing team, providing submarine platform diagnostic and maintenance support for hydraulic and electro-mechanical systems.

This role will provide you with the opportunity to work within a customer-facing environment, alongside cutting-edge technology in an ever changing and growing landscape. Future career progression could be the opportunity to work in other projects, on other platforms or lead to an engineering management position.

Your main responsibilities as a Field Service Engineer (Submarine Support) will involve:

• Mobile engineering support for submarine systems and associated equipment in the UK
• Providing on-call support as required
• Answering technical queries about your work within your level of knowledge and competence
• Raising risk assessments and method statements to cover work
• Designing and developing solutions to a range of common design situations and problems
• Working as part of a team and under limited technical supervision
• Understanding and applying a range of fundamental design processes, tools, systems and techniques
• Communicating with internal and external customers and with other functions
• Performing self-verification of own tasks to ensure completeness and quality and to arrange checking of work by the appropriate authority

Your skills and qualifications as a Field Service Engineer (Submarine Support):

Essential

• Electro-Mechanical/Hydraulic engineering background
• Experience of fault-finding, repair and commissioning of complex electronic systems
• Report writing skills
• HND qualified or higher (or equivalent qualification or experience)

Desirable

• Experience of working offsite and providing practicable solutions
• Knowledge of Field Services environment
• Background in military or defence engineering

What We’re Looking For In You

You will be a team player with strong communication skills and the ability to effectively solve problems. Attention to detail is critical for the role, so you must have a confident approach to your work and work well under pressure. Flexibility and adaptability will be key to success in this role. This is a customer facing role, so you will have excellent people and behavioural skills.

Location: Mobile – travel will include locations such as: Faslane, Plymouth and Portsmouth

Salary: Competitive + overtime and uplifts for mobile working etc.

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.

Flexible Working: At Maritime Services, we embrace flexible and modern working arrangements and feel this is an important part of the benefits that we have on offer. It helps us to create a diverse and inclusive workplace. For this role we are open to discussing the possibility of an element of working from home, flexible start and finish times or we would welcome your suggestions for how we could make this role fit your circumstances.

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.

Maritime Services

Join us and help to define the future of global maritime defence capabilities. With approximately 3,500 employees based at five UK locations and revenue of £600million, we pride ourselves on employing the best professionals around and offer significant opportunities for committed employees to learn and grow with us. Our people are encouraged to be as creative as they can be and are always looking at ways to develop and challenge the way we do things, identifying and prioritising continuous improvement activities across the business

From our headquarters in Portsmouth, we are proud to support the Royal Navy in global operations. BAE Systems Maritime Services delivers end-to-end support to over 50 per cent of the Royal Navy’s surface fleet. Our services include ship upgrades, repairs, dockyard facilities management and provision of combat systems training. We also develop and support the Royal Navy’s complex equipment, such as radar, torpedoes and small boats.

With our international programmes and core support to the Ministry of Defence, you could find yourself working on the iconic Queen Elizabeth Class aircraft carriers, Type 45 Destroyers, Type 23 Frigates, Type 26 Global Combat Ships, Hunt Class Mine Countermeasure Vessels, Offshore Patrol Vessels, historic ships and more. Our highly skilled teams design, develop, support and maintain a wide range of complex equipment. This includes Spearfish, one of the most powerful and capable wire guided torpedoes on the market. Currently undergoing a major upgrade programme, Spearfish will soon benefit from further sophisticated advances in its homing, warheads, tactical and fuelling systems, as well an upgraded guidance link. Then there’s Artisan, the 3D radar that can identify a target the size of a tennis ball, travelling at a speed of more than 2000 miles an hour more than 25 kilometres away!

Join us and the projects you’ll be involved in will form the backbone of the Royal Navy for decades to come. You’ll be part of something important; something you can be proud of.

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.

For more information on our Diversity & Inclusion work, please click here .

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.

Job

Engineering

Primary Location

Portsmouth BroadOak

Closing Date

22/Jul/21, 5:59:00 PM