Maintenance Engineer

QinetiQ Limited; Portsmouth; On-site; GBP 30,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join QinetiQ as a Maintenance Engineer at their Portsmouth site, where you'll work with cutting-edge technology to support trials and enhance the efficiency of maritime systems. This role requires NVQ Level 3 in Engineering and experience in combat systems maintenance. You'll have opportunities for growth in a supportive environment committed to innovation and teamwork.

Benefits

Matched contribution pension scheme

Generous holiday allowance

Options for Health Cash Plan and Private Medical Insurance

Employee discount portal for various services

Volunteering opportunities

Qualifications

• Essential experience in a maintenance role relevant to Combat Systems.
• NVQ Level 3 in Engineering or equivalent required.

Responsibilities

• Configuring GFX equipment to meet trials programme requirements.
• Maintaining assigned GFX equipment according to procedures.
• Collaborating with teams to support trials and provide advice.

Skills

Maintenance experience

Fault-finding

Collaboration

Education

NVQ Level 3 in Engineering

Job description

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Are you ready to be part of the future? At QinetiQ, we’re not just imagining tomorrow we are creating it. From cutting edge defence technology to ground breaking innovations our mission is to empower and protect lives. Join us as a Maintenance Engineer at our Portsmouth site, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology in partnership with some of the most brilliant minds.

The Role
As a Maintenance Engineer, you will make a difference by providing critical support to trials, ensuring equipment reliability, and enhancing the overall efficiency of maritime systems ultimately impacting the development and deployment of advanced technologies in the defence sector.

Day-to-day, you’ll be responsible for a variety of tasks that ensure the smooth operation of GFX equipment and support the success of trials at QinetiQ's Portsmouth site. This is an exciting opportunity to work within the Shore Integration Facility (SIF) and National Maritime Systems Centre (NMSC).

Your responsibilities will include:

• Configuring GFX equipment and Infrastructure IAW RFMS in order to meet the requirements of the Trials Programme
• Being responsible for the maintenance of all assigned GFX equipment IAW UMMS, BRs, JSPs, and OEM handouts
• Ensuring GFX is safe, maintained, available and configured for daily trials booked on RFMS
• Working collaboratively with Combat Systems Engineers, Teams and Customers to provide support, SME advice and Maintainer presence to all trials that require assistance including in situ support
• Being responsible for fault-finding, defect rectification, reconfiguration of equipment and the supporting of monthly System Operator Checks as designated by the Operations Team
• Ensuring GFX defects are managed and investigated, registering defects on RFMS, updating defects on a regular basis and keeping the Operations Team informed

Essential experience of the Maintenance Engineer:

• Experience working in a maintenance role relevant to Combat Systems

Essential qualifications for the Maintenance Engineer:

• NVQ Level 3 in Engineering or equivalent

This role is 37 hours per week based at Portsmouth.

Why Join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

As a QinetiQ employee, you’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture at www.qinetiq.com/en/careers/life-at-qinetiq .

• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Generous holiday allowance, with the option to purchase additional days
• Options to join Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more
• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant and maintaining our Gold Award standard in the Defence Employer Recognition Scheme
• Volunteering Opportunities - helping charities and local community

Our Recruitment Process:

We want to make sure that our recruitment process is as inclusive as possible and we aspire to bring out the best in our candidates by creating an environment where everyone feels valued, heard and supported. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your Recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting being completed, applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment. A number of roles are also subject to additional restrictions, which mean factors such as nationality or previous nationalities may affect the roles that you can be employed in.

Please note that all applicants for this role must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.