BAE Systems
Senior Maintenance Engineer (Class Output Management)
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Job Title: Senior Maintenance Engineer (Class Output Management)
Location: Portsmouth Naval Base – minimum of 3 days onsite per week
We offer a range of flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role
Salary: Circa £46,000 (dependent on skills and experience)
Who we are:
Join BAE Systems and you’ll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you’ll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You’ll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow, shaping a safer future, for all of us.
From the depths of the ocean, to the far reaches of space, there’s no limit to where a career at BAE Systems could take you.
Role Description:
A key member of the Maintenance Management team within Asset Management. Responsible for producing accurate and optimised maintenance work packages using maintenance management toolsets, ensuring consistency through standardised processes and strong engineering governance.
Applies technical experience, defect trend analysis and material state insights to improve maintenance accuracy, demand planning and future forecasting. Drives continuous improvement by refining processes, enhancing data integrity and contributing to toolset development to support the evolving needs of current and future customers.
Core Duties:
- Producing optimised maintenance work-packages for allocated platform class using analysis of maintenance management systems, ships staff feedback and outputs from improved condition monitoring / material state assessments
- Assessing maintenance costs and defect trend/prediction across the class, investigating to identify underlying root causes
- Maintaining continuous assessment of material state for designated platform / systems, monitoring and updating as required
- Report weekly performance
- Producing well written and explicit work packages which can be readily planned and estimated by the delivery teams
- Reflect maintenance pertaining to classification within the work package
- Maintaining effective relationships within the COM (Class Output Management) and Waterfront Service Provider as well as engineers across the wider enterprise (Partner/Supplier communities)
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Essential Skills:
- You’ll hold ONC, HNC, HND or Degree-level education in an Engineering discipline, or have equivalent relevant working experience
- You’ll have specialist engineering knowledge and experience in a subject area (Mechanical or Electrical)
- You’ll have a working knowledge of the engineering lifecycle
- You’ll be aware of and adhere to statutory regulations, including those relating to Information Systems, Safety, Health & Environment, and Security requirements
Benefits:
As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
The Maintenance Management team:
As a Senior Maintenance Engineer, you will be responsible for producing optimised work packages using scheduled information extracted from the Maintenance Management System and undertaking detailed root cause analysis of material state and failure trends, to enable work packages to be optimised. The role will provide you with the opportunity to work with various stakeholders both internally and externally. There will be opportunities for wider development within BAE Systems
As the world has evolved, so has the way we work. Our working approach, will enable you to have flexibility with your working hours, depending on your role and location. This could include accruing hours as well as flexibility around start and finish times, ensuring you can balance life at work, on site and life at home
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Why BAE Systems?
Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work, this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best. You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family, support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.
A place where everyone can thrive:
We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.
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: 29th September 2026
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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