At a Glance
- Tasks: Maintain and prepare advanced training equipment for the Royal Navy's maritime warfare training.
- Company: Join Raytheon UK, a leader in defence and aerospace technology.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, pension scheme, 25 days holiday, and flexible working options.
- Other info: Dynamic work culture with opportunities for volunteering and career growth.
- Why this job: Be part of a team that ensures our armed forces are ready for any situation.
- Qualifications: Experience in software maintenance and system administration is essential.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
Date Posted: 2026-07-20
Country: United Kingdom
Location: Fareham, Hampshire
Position Role Type: Onsite
Contract Type: 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. 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.
Responsibilities:
- Systems Familiarity: Develop sustainable working competency to promptly solve a variety of operating issues/defects on Customer Furnished and Government Furnished equipment (CFE and GFE).
- 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.
- Preventative/Corrective Maintenance: Undertake general, routine, preventative and corrective maintenance activities for MCTS systems and support equipment.
- Administer Systems: Undertake a variety of system administration and maintenance tasks across the range of MCTS Training Equipment.
- Effective Response: 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.
- Ensure compliance with Company health, safety and environmental procedures.
- Any other duties required to complete the Training Equipment Service.
Required experience:
- Previous Experience of configuring, installing, maintaining a range of software; System Start-up and Shutdowns.
- Working knowledge of 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.
- Undertake spares/logistics tasks associated with spares management.
- Developed knowledge and experience of managing and maintaining an array of technical, training equipment portfolios.
- Demonstrate a clear ability to maintain effective dialogue with all internal and external stakeholders.
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.
Mcts Training Equipment Maintainer in Fareham employer: Raytheon Technologies
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