Job Title: Through-Life Support – Supportability Engineer
Location: Warton – onsite
We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.
Salary: £51,772+ Depending on 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.
From the depths of the ocean, to the far reaches of space, there’s no limit to where a career at BAE Systems could take you.
Job Description:
This role supports the Supportability Engineering Team in delivering engineering analysis and applying supportability and maintainability principles across the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) and Future Combat Air Systems (FCAS). The position involves analysing design and in-service data to influence future through-life support strategies, providing supportability guidance to multidisciplinary engineering teams, and producing technical outputs in line with international standards. The role also includes assessing the impact of design changes on sustainment solutions and evaluating safety requirements and hazards that may affect long-term platform support and operational capability.
Core duties:
- 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
Essential Skills:
- Experience within Support Engineering or Maintenance environments
- Understanding of supportability and maintainability standards and processes
- Aerospace supportability experience would be advantageous
- Knowledge of through-life support principles for airborne systems
- Awareness of Reliability, Maintainability and Testability (RMT)
- Exposure to supportability methodologies including LORA, FMECA, LSA, ILS or RCM
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?
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: 12th June 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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