Senior Maintenance Engineer in Portsmouth

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: Up to £48,000 (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.

Role Description: 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:

• Produce accurate, optimised and clearly defined maintenance work packages using Maintenance Management toolsets driven by source MMS data and approved technical documentation, ensuring compliance with maintenance policy, classification rules, statutory requirements and engineering governance.
• Support standardisation of work package development across Asset Management, using experience and practical knowledge to improve accuracy, optimise content, enhance clarity and evolve processes for current and future customers and business growth.
• Collaborate with Asset Management teams and Ship Delivery to produce accurate work packages with aligned and optimal demand plans.
• Monitor progress of released work packages, ensuring safe and correct completion, accurate recording in Maintenance Management toolsets and feeding insights into future planning cycles.
• Provide documentation and technical clarity to Asset Management Maintenance Engineers to ensure effective understanding and use of the work package product.
• Identify and report incorrect, inconsistent or outdated maintenance data across Maintenance Management toolsets and other technical documentation sources.
• Provide SME support and guidance to Maintenance Engineers and less experienced colleagues, supporting consistent and high‑quality outputs.
• Apply engineering governance consistently and support standardised processes across Asset Management.
• Drive continuous improvement by identifying better ways of working, solving problems proactively and refining processes to meet future business needs and emerging customer requirements.

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 relevant 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 Information Systems, Safety, Health & Environment, and Security requirements.
• You’ll have experience using Maintenance Management Systems.
• You’ll be able to use the full suite of Microsoft Office toolsets.
• You’ll have knowledge of problem‑solving and Root Cause Analysis techniques.
• You’ll be able to build and continuously improve effective customer relationships and influence direction.

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.

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: 19th May 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.