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Location

Portsmouth, Hampshire | United Kingdom

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Job description

Location: Portsmouth, United KingdomThales people provide armed forces customers with operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defence mission systems solutions at land, sea, and air. Our platforms extend across the battlespace including Above and Sonar, Electronic Combat, and Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance systems.Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that’s why we offer you the flexibility to do what’s important to you; whether that’s part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.

An immediate vacancy for a Service Engineer, experienced in hydraulic and ideally marine systems.

Working within a dockyard facility in Portsmouth, you will be involved in service, repair and periodic maintenance of Thales equipment on board small to medium sized vessels.

Our Opportunity:

As a Field Services Engineer, you will be responsible for the deployment, setting to work and in service support of Sonar Systems deployed on Royal Navy and export customers Ships.

Key Responsibilities and Tasks:

• Be responsible for the Health and Safety of all Thales activities carried out by you and comply with the following:
  • Risk Assessments.
  • COSHH Assessments.
  • Safe systems of work.
  • Be ultimately accountable for your own day-to-day welfare.
• Support to both Royal Navy and Export Platforms in Defect Rectification:
  • Conduct and Supervise Front-line support including Fault diagnosis and testing as well as acceptance trials both in harbour and at sea.
  • Provide On-Call telephone support to our customers (Once at a suitable level of knowledge).
  • Write site visit reports.
• Support to both Royal Navy and Export Platforms Maintenance Periods / Refits:
  • Conduct Pre-Upkeep Maintenance Assessment (PUMA) inspections.
  • Conduct scheduled maintenance activities
  • Escalate engineering issues to the Field Services Manager or Service Delivery Manager as required.
  • Write post maintenance reports.
• Weekly reports to the Service Delivery Manager Field Services Manager or Service Delivery Manager as required
  • Activities undertaken.
  • Upcoming activities.
  • Successes, challenges, opportunities.
  • Identify any support required from the project or department.
• Compliance with all export control rules and regulations including International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).
• You will also perform additional ad-hoc duties that will arise from time to time that are consistent with the nature of this position.

Although the role is largely based on site in Portsmouth, there may be an infrequent requirement for you to travel to customer sites in the UK and overseas.

About You:

As a Field Services Engineer you will have a track record of performing in a relevant engineering discipline, preferably dealing with Complex Systems. You must be capable of resolving issues and problems, with the ability to diagnose hydraulic and other mechanical faults.

You will have strong interpersonal skills and the ability to communicate at all levels in the spoken and written word. Your experience will demonstrate your high level of self-motivation and the ability to work under pressure are vital.

Ideally qualified in a core engineering subject (electrical, mechanical, etc.), preferably HNC, endured apprenticeship or REME.

Demonstrable experience in conducting installations and or support engineering preferably in a maritime environment and working knowledge of complex systems is desirable.

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In line with Thales' Baseline Security requirements, candidates will be asked to provide evidence of identity, eligibility to work in the UK and employment and/or education history for up to three years. Some vacancies may require full Security Clearance which can require further evidence to be provided. For further details of the evidence required to apply for Baseline and Security Clearance please refer to the Defence Business Services National Security Vetting (DBS NSV) Agency.

At Thales we provide CAREERS and not only jobs. With Thales employing 80,000 employees in 68 countries our mobility policy enables thousands of employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad, in their existing areas of expertise or by branching out into new fields. Together we believe that embracing flexibility is a smarter way of working.

Thales UK is committed to providing an inclusive and barrier-free recruitment process. We will provide reasonable adjustments and support to ensure neuro-diverse applicants or those with a disability or long-term condition can be their best during the recruitment process. To request an adjustment, if you need this job advert in an alternative format or if you have any questions about the recruitment process, please contact Resourcing Ops for mid to senior roles, or the Early Careers Team for graduate and apprentice roles.

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