Maintenance Support Engineer

BAE Systems.; Preston; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 42,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense contractor in the UK seeks a Maintenance Support Engineer to join their Operations Maintenance Team in Samlesbury. The role involves managing financial transactions, workload for maintenance tasks, and ensuring compliance with asset management standards. The ideal candidate will have strong knowledge of BAE tools and the ability to support manufacturing operations. Competitive salary and benefits offered.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible health and lifestyle benefits

Qualifications

• Experience with financial management and reconciliation.
• Familiarity with asset management principles.
• Ability to support compliance and monitor performance.

Responsibilities

• Manage departmental financial transactions and support.
• Handle workload management for maintenance tasks.
• Support health surveillance planning and business reviews.

Skills

BAE toolset system knowledge of Coupa, CPA, WFM, SF, JIRA, SharePoint

Competent IT skills

Understanding of Operations Maintenance team operations

Ability to prioritize workload

Job description

Job Title

Maintenance Support Engineer

Location

Samlesbury

Salary

£41,361.00

What you'll be doing

• Departmental financial management for Coupa and Amex transactions including supplier engagement, financial commitment and receipt, financial statement reconciliation and reporting, through to financial audit support for the Samlesbury based Maintenance team
• EAM and Tableau workload management, ensuring management of planned and unplanned job tickets including creation, printing, completion and recording within EAM, and reporting and management of overdue planned work
• Monitoring workload performance, schedule adherence, and key production equipment KPI reporting
• Supporting compliance activities, including ISO55001 Asset Management, AS9100 Quality audits, Document Record Management, Bureau Veritas defect reporting, and WFM policy adherence
• Providing administrative support across contractor management, training matrix upkeep, departmental workwear requirements, and standard presentation/communication packs
• Assisting with site operations, including visitor facilitation, travel management, and security compliance
• Supporting the Maintenance SHE Team with health surveillance planning, plus preparation of monthly business and customer review packs

Your skills and experiences

• BAE toolset system knowledge of Coupa, CPA, WFM, SF, JIRA, SharePoint
• Competent IT skills and an ability to accommodate new toolsets
• Good understanding of how an Operations Maintenance team operates and supports manufacturing operations with asset management principles
• Ability to understand, interpret, assimilate and navigate differing stakeholder requirements, with a demonstrable capability to prioritise workload accordingly

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee 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 Operations Maintenance Team

As a Maintenance Support Engineer within the Operations Maintenance Team, you will be based at our Samlesbury site, to provide technical problem solving, CI and maintenance toolset optimisation in support of manufacturing asset capability and sustainment.

The Operations Maintenance team is accountable for asset management and the sustainment of manufacturing plant and equipment across a range of aircraft programmes. Within this scope, the team is responsible for the coordination of planned internal and outsourced asset maintenance, service records and document management, supporting activities to ensure asset resilience, availability and reliability, facilitating targeted root causes of equipment failures and reliability centred maintenance (RCM) studies into business critical plant and equipment.

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

26th September 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.

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