MCTS Training Equipment Maintainer in London

hackajob is partnering directly with Raytheon UK to hire for this role.

Location: Fareham, Hampshire

Position Role Type: Onsite

Permanent Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Contributory Pension Scheme
• 6 times salary Life Assurance with pension
• 25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others
• Enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave

Work Culture:

• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.
• Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!
• Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.
• Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role).

About us:

At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence. As a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom, Raytheon UK helps to solve our customers' toughest challenges. We are a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. We also provide digital and training transformation solutions to commercial and military customers.

Role & Responsibilities:

MCTS is a sophisticated and versatile training platform used by the Royal Navy providing state of the art classroom and simulation training facilities delivering maritime warfare training in controlled environments. MCTS Maintainers play a pivotal part in ensuring training equipment is prepared and ready for use; defects are promptly addressed; spares are controlled; and Customer KPI requirements are met on a daily basis. Accountable directly to the MCTS Lead Maintainer; working both individually and as part of a dual-site team, maintainers will work with a variety of modern simulation and training technology solutions, ensuring their readiness for training and seamless provision during the training day.

Responsibilities:

• Systems Familiarity: Maintainers are responsible for, and must develop, sustainable working competency to promptly solve a variety of operating issues/defects on Customer Furnished and Government Furnished equipments (CFE and GFE) which form the MCTS TE outfit.
• Training Equipment (TE) Preparation: Prepare assigned training spaces/equipment for training to meet Ready for Training requirements as specified in the Agreed Training Schedule (ATS).
• Maintain TE Hardware: Assure availability and serviceability of in use TE in assigned spaces to deliver correctly prepared/formatted TE to meet the training schedule.
• Preventative/Corrective Maintenance: Undertake general, routine, preventative and corrective maintenance activities for MCTS systems and support equipment to assure continuity of service.
• Administer Systems: Undertake a variety of system administration and maintenance tasks across the range of MCTS Training Equipment.
• Effective Response: A key part of the MCTS Maintainer role is to provide rapid, prioritised response to defects arising on in-use TE to minimise training downtime.
• Spares/Fault Management: Use bespoke Hardware Management System to log and report defects/shortfalls.
• Health, Safety and Environmental Compliance: Ensure Company health, safety and environmental procedures are implemented and complied with at all times.

Required experience:

• Previous Experience of configuring, installing, maintaining a range software; System Start-up and Shutdowns.
• Aware: Working knowledge of some or all of the following Operating Systems: User Administration of SUSE Linux; UNIX Administration (Solaris and HP-UX); Windows Administration (W2003 and W2012).
• Ability to interface with outfitted systems to undertake expected system administration and management functions.
• Able to analyse defects/technical issues and succinctly report/input the necessary detail into logging and analysis tools.
• Spares Management: Undertake spares/logistics tasks associated with spares management.
• Developed, Substantive knowledge and experience of managing and maintaining an array of technical, training equipment portfolios, including networks.

Desirable experience:

• Awareness of RN warfare equipment and methodologies.
• Maintain and assure the provision of Video-teleconference (VTC) links between remotely linked sites.
• PAT Testing Competency.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.