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**Job Title:** Maintenance Support 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:** £41,361
What You’ll Be Doing
* Identifying, supporting, and facilitating critical equipment Reliability Centred Maintenance studies, coordinating actions and outputs, and planning asset care strategies.
* Conducting Root Cause Analysis for equipment failures, facilitating investigations, and coordinating outputs and corrective actions.
* Planning, preparing, and establishing new asset Planned Preventative Maintenance (PPM’s), ensuring topicality and appropriateness of existing PPM’s, and identifying, planning, and establishing First Line Maintenance (FLM’s).
* Coordinating and facilitating asset risk and criticality assessments, collating outputs, customer feedback, and IBP inputs, reviewing and improving toolsets.
* Supporting manufacturing resilience and strategy optimization.
* Managing departmental KPIs and reporting, supporting internal and external audits.
* Managing and administering EAM systems.
* Investigating new technologies to enhance departmental capabilities and modernization.
Essential Skills and Experiences
* Sound understanding of manufacturing maintenance and asset management, with experience managing planned and reactive work.
* Experience managing varied stakeholders from senior management to shopfloor workers, with collaboration and negotiation skills.
* Experience using maintenance management software systems to manage planned and unplanned work.
Benefits
Competitive pension scheme, employee share plans, flexible health, wellbeing, and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans, shopping discounts, and potential annual incentives.
The Operations Maintenance Team
The Maintenance Support Engineer supports the Operations Maintenance Team at Samlesbury, providing technical problem solving, continuous improvement, and maintenance toolset optimization to support manufacturing asset capability and sustainment.
The team is responsible for asset management and the sustainment of manufacturing plant and equipment across aircraft programmes, coordinating planned internal and outsourced asset maintenance, managing service records, supporting asset resilience, and conducting root cause analysis and RCM studies for critical equipment.
Why BAE Systems?
This is a place to make a real difference. We value diversity, reward integrity, and merit, and empower you to fulfill your potential. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and accommodate disabilities or health conditions during assessments. Note that many roles are subject to security and export restrictions, requiring security vetting and residency criteria.
Closing Date: 20th August 2025. Apply early as we may close the vacancy early if sufficient applications are received.
Additional Details
* Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
* Employment type: Full-time
* Job function: Information Technology
* Industries: Defense and Space Manufacturing
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