Job Title: Maintenance and Support Engineer
Location: Bordon, Hampshire
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF59207
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as a Maintenance and Support Engineer at our Oakhanger site.
The role
As a Maintenance and Support Engineer, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll be the primary support of all station equipment working on the Skynet contract.
Day-to-day, you’ll:
- Work the Operations Support Supervisor, and Satellite Ground Station Manager the Network Operations Centre, to ensure capacity across our network
- Work in conjunction with the Installation and Maintenance teams
- Escalate failures in line with departmental reporting expectations
- Deputise and cover for the Senior Maintenance and Support Engineer in their absence
- Create and change written authorised procedures and manuals as directed by the Senior Maintenance and Support Engineer
This position involves manual work. This could include lifting, bending, using tools or standing for extended periods of time.
This role is full time, 39 hours per week (up to 44 hours a week over an 8-day shift cycle) and is based on site at Oakhanger.
Essential Experience of the Maintenance and Support Engineer
- Networking experience
- Serial Data Coms experience
- Proficient in working with Microsoft Office software
- Good awareness of Fibre and Copper cable management
- Competent in the setting up, maintaining and fault diagnosis of equipment used in X, S, and Ku band satellite control and baseband data communication systems
Qualifications for the Maintenance and Support Engineer
- HNC or above in Electrical and Electronic Engineering or relevant evidence of experience
- A full UK driving licence
Security Clearance
The successful candidate must be able to achieve and maintain Security Check (SC) security clearance for this role.
Many of the positions within our company are subject to national security clearance and Trade Control restrictions. This means that your eligibility for certain roles may be affected by your place of birth, nationality, current or former citizenship, and any residency you hold or have held. Further details are available at United Kingdom Security Vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk).
What we offer
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Access to a Digital GP, annual health check, and nutritional consultations through Aviva DigiCare+
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows the majority of employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
- ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
- Potential to develop skills
- A dynamic working environment
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock has helped to defend nations, protect communities and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
We are a disability confident committed employer. If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please email careers@babcockinternational.com with the subject header ‘Reasonable adjustments requirement’. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working – please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing Date: 11/09/2024
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