Maintenance Manager (Central Planning Hub)

Job title: Maintenance Manager - Central Planning Hub (CPH)

Location: Portsmouth Naval Base - We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £60,000+ (dependent on skills and experience)

What you’ll be doing:

• Translate the Asset Management (AM) Maintenance Management (MM) short and long term Strategy, into a MAXIMO (MXO) facing Planning and delivery, inclusive of logistical requirements, for all Class Output Management’s (COM), drawing them to a centralised workflow and process

• Manage and oversee the compilation of targeted and accurate work packages by the Central Planning Hub (CPH) for handover to COM Maintenance Engineers at customer maintenance policy, ensuring previous LfE (learning from experience) is reflected

• Undertake effective internal and external stakeholder management with Senior Management within BAE Systems, across the AM COM (asset management - class output management) environment and with management teams of Customers/ Partners/ Suppliers

• Liaise with AM COM Platform Managers/ Maintenance Managers to ensure that the Customer’s annual budget is correctly targeted

• Deputise for the Asset Management Service Hub Lead when required

• Apply Engineering governance and ensure compliance with the Lifecycle Management Framework

  Your skills and experiences:

  • Degree/ HND qualified or equivalent experience

  • Significant and varied working knowledge and experience of Maintenance Engineering in a complex engineering business

  • Knowledge and experience in the Maritime Sector and/ or in dealing with Ministry of Defence/ Military Customer base

  • Good understanding of MoD/ industry policy and process in the Maintenance Engineering environment

  • Appropriate engineering management experience

  • Key Maintenance Management IS tools, UMMS, SSDD, RCM Toolkit, MIMIC, Titanium, Trilogy and MAXIMO etc.

    Benefits:

    As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers 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.

    Maintenance Central Planning Hub:

    The Maintenance Central Planning Hub are responsible for interpreting the COM/ MoD customer requirement for Asset Management Central Planning Hub to plan for availability and capability into a robust and firmly outlined Maximo scheduled work packages, aimed at fully optimising all categories of maintenance though informed analysis of performance and defect trends and review of the material state

    To ensure effective partnering between the individual COM Teams, the MoD customer and external support providers by maintaining open communications on all operational and technical issues relating to the material state of the Class, and act as Subject Matter Expert (SME) in a platform engineering discipline through pre-existing SQEP, identifying areas for improvement of the Class Support solution

    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: 31st July 2025

    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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