Job title: Maintenance Manager-Test and Commissioning
Location: Barrow in Furness-on site
Salary: £60,350+ depending on skills and experience
What you’ll be doing:
*Lead and manage the Ships Equipment Test & Commissioning Tradal Support (T&C) teams to meet contract requirements, schedules, and specifications
*Develop team capabilities, ensuring resources are skilled, optimised, and aligned with project needs
*Oversee the integration, delivery, and compliance of solutions while managing technical risks, planning and reviewing T&C activities to meet quality, cost, and schedule targets, and streamlining processes to enhance efficiency, flexibility, and reduce waste
*Coordinate with stakeholders to ensure maintenance and commissioning activities meet specifications and regulatory standards
*Act as Deputy Review Group Chair and participate in review groups, ensuring adherence to processes and regulations
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
*MBA/MSc/Degree in Engineering discipline or equivalent experience
*Experience of managing maintenance plans
*Previous Team Leader/ management Experience
Desirable
*Site Licence and authorisation compliance experience
*Typically, an Incorporated Engineer working towards Chartership & member of the relevant institute
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.
The Test and Commissioning Team:
Here you will have the opportunity to oversee and lead a maintenance team of 15 people comprising both staff and manual workers, ensuring the effective execution of strategy, governance, and delivery for the maintenance of ship-fit equipment throughout the build lifecycle.
You’ll play a key role in the broader Test & Commissioning (T&C) program, contributing to a multi-disciplinary effort involving commissioning activities for platform assemblies, equipment, and software products. You’ll have the opportunity to work with a wide range of Stakeholders and have great networking opportunities across the business. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.
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: 16th 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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