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Undergraduate Through Life Support Engineer

BAE Systems
£25,900
Brough
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TL;DR

Key Takeaways

  • Undertake Through Life Support activities in the Air Engineering environment, including engineering analysis and documentation.
  • Salary of £25,900 per year.
  • 12-month placement role based in Brough (Hull), with hybrid working.
  • Requires a 2:2 Bachelor’s degree or Master's pass in relevant STEM subjects.
  • Start date: 21st June 2027.

About the Role

This is a 12-month placement for an Undergraduate Air Through Life Support Engineer.

Location

Brough (Hull). You will be expected to attend your site 3-4 days per week.

Salary

£25,900 per year.

End Date

16th June 2028

Role Description

In this role, you will contribute to the core Through Life Support activities within the Air Engineering environment. Your work will include performing detailed engineering analyses such as FMECA, Reliability and Maintainability assessments, and obsolescence evaluations to understand and improve system behaviour over time. You will help generate essential support documentation, including technical reports, maintenance schedules, maintenance procedures, and wider Integrated Logistics Support (ILS) deliverables. Throughout the product lifecycle, you may influence design for maintainability, collaborating closely with designers, maintainers, and suppliers to ensure the final solution is safe, sustainable, and efficient to support in service.

Core Duties

  • Create engineering outputs to support maintaining equipment or systems throughout their entire life, from initial concept to eventual disposal, whilst always considering safety and environmental factors.
  • Reliability Analysis: Interrogate and analyse design and supplier data to influence and qualify product design and support solutions.
  • Maintainability: Utilise design and customer support and service data to identify maintenance optimisations to provide efficient maintenance policies, schedules and procedures.
  • Technical Documentation: Research engineering documentation and create, update and publish design approved technical information.
  • Product Support: Support customer personnel with understanding the operational and maintenance needs of their products and provide support solutions.

The Air Team

We have a proud heritage in the development, manufacture, upgrade and support of world-leading combat and fast jet trainer aircraft. We operate across the globe, supporting design, production, and provision of aircraft including Typhoon, F-35 and Tempest.

Qualification Requirements

You'll need to be on track to obtain a 2:2 Bachelor’s degree or a pass at Master’s level in Aerospace Engineering, Through-life Engineering Services Specialist, Systems Engineering or STEM.

Start Date

21st June 2027

Length of Contract

12 months

Security and Export Control

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.