Senior Operations Engineer

Job Description - Senior Operations Engineer ()

Job title: Senior Operations Engineer

Location: Barrow-in-Furness. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this role.

What you'll be doing:

1. Communicating and planning effectively with Stakeholders at all levels within the Submarine Business and External 3rd Party service providers.
2. Responsible for your own SAP EAM Work Centres, and facilitating Statutory Inspections as well as Planned & Reactive 3rd Party Maintenance.
3. Controlling SAP EAM work orders, ensuring high quality detail of works is accurately recorded.
4. Review and submission of Risk Assessments & Method Statements (RAMS) as a BAE Responsible Person (RP), monitoring compliance to 3rd party RAMS through internal audits and process confirmations.
5. Liaising with Security Team Stakeholders to arrange site access, escorting 3rd parties and providing adherence to BAE Site Security Guidance.
6. Driving Engagement with 3rd Party Service Providers prior to commencement of works to ensure Safe Systems of Work are in place and understood by all stakeholders.
7. Delivering departmental processes and performing Asset Validation activities.

Your skills and experiences:

1. Experience in an Engineering, Maintenance or Asset Management environment.
2. Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and able to communicate effectively (both written and verbal).
3. Proficient user of Microsoft Office packages.
4. Experience in managing and working to Safe Systems of Work (SSOW).
5. An understanding of planned, reactive and statutory maintenance.
6. Health and safety qualifications (IOSH, NEBOSH).
7. Working knowledge of SAP EAM (Electronic Asset Management).
8. Awareness of LOLER, PUWER, LEV and PSSR.

You'll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave incentive 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 Plant Maintenance Operations Team:

The Plant Maintenance Operations Team are responsible for ensuring asset compliance to regulatory needs, both planned and reactive. Involving the mobilisation and management of specialist 3rd party vendors. The role combines office work and traversing site wide variations in day-to-day tasks. We offer relocation support across all Submarine 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: 23rd April 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.