Job title: Through-Life Support – Supportability Engineer

Location: Warton – Full-time onsite

Salary: £49,400+ dependant on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Assist the Supportability Engineering Team in the execution of engineering analysis and the application of supportability engineering principles to influence the design and future sustainment of GCAP platform and systems
• Provide input, advice and feedback to systems discipline teams in regards to the supportability and maintainability considerations of the platform and systems
• Process and analyse design data and current platform in-service data to help inform the future approach to through-life support with in the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) and Future Combat Air Systems (FCAS).
• Generating technical supportability outputs in accordance with a variety of international standards and specifications
• Assist with the overall assessment, management and control of change to supportability characteristics across various FCAS platform design concepts, and capture the subsequent impact on the through-life support solution requirements
• Analysis of safety requirements and hazards that may influence the support solution

Your skills and experiences:

• Awareness and understanding of the overarching principles of through-life support to military air platforms
• Experience of working in either a support engineering or maintenance role aligned to the weapons discipline and a good working level of understanding of the key standards/specifications/processes relevant to this domain
• First line fast jet experience (Typhoon, Tornado, F-35) would be advantageous
• An awareness the key principles of Reliability, Maintainability and Testability with an understanding of at least one of the following supportability engineering tools/techniques/approaches: Level of Repair Analysis (LORA), Failure Modes, Effects & Criticality Analysis (FMECA), Logistics Support Analysis (LSA), Integrated Logistics Support (ILS), Reliability Centered Maintenance (RCM)

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 Through-Life Support Team:

An opportunity has arisen within the growing GCAP Through-Life Support, Supportability Engineering Team, providing opportunity to influence the Reliability, Maintainability and Supportability considerations of the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP).

This role will initially be focussed on the early lifecycle – influencing the “design for support” considerations of the core platform concepts and eliciting requirements for the support solution – and will evolve into the development and in-service phases of the programme, generating, managing and configuring the outputs of various supportability engineering activities using internationally recognised standards and methods.

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: 6th February 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.

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