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Job Title: Electrical Maintenance Technician
Location: Washington, Tyne & Wear
Salary: £46,660 inc shift premium (£37,935 basic, 3 shift pattern)
What You’ll Be Doing
* Site maintenance and installation activities
* Minor/major repairs
* Breakdown response and diagnostics to resolve manufacturing equipment issues
* Support to contractors during technical works
* Attendance at site operational meetings as required
* Execution of work orders from the site CMMS
* Update of work order details to maintain the asset database for the site on all works performed
Essential
Your skills and experiences:
* 17th/18th Edition Wiring Regulation Qualification
* Time served Electrician (HNC/HND desirable)
* Working in a high paced manufacturing environment, typically on and around CNC machines
* Safety qualifications (e.g. IOSH, working at height, MEWP licence, confined space)
Desirable
* HV/LV Switching
* Testing and Inspection C&G 2391
* Industrial Robots (Fanuc/ABB)
* PLC Experience
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.
Maintenance Team
As an Electrical Maintenance Technician, you will carry out a varied range of electrical activities that protect the Washington site and ensure capability for manufacturing teams to perform their duties. This will include planned maintenance, reactive breakdown response/repairs and work requests.
This is an excellent opportunity to join a growing team in a role where every day is different working on a variety of products. We have several vacancies available due to the continued expansion across our Land UK sites with BAE Systems securing new orders for the supply of munitions to the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD).
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 of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and 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: 18th June 2025
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.
Seniority level
* Seniority level
Mid-Senior level
Employment type
* Employment type
Full-time
Job function
* Job function
Management and Manufacturing
* Industries
Defense and Space Manufacturing
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