MCTS Training Equipment Maintainer

Job Description

MCTS Training Equipment Maintainer

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Location: HMS Collingwood (on site)
Permanent
Benefits:

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• £: Competitive salary

Contributory Pension Scheme

6 times salary 'Life Assurance' with pension

25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)

Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others

Enhanced sick pay

Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave

Work Culture

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• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.

Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!

Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.

Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.

Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role) - please highlight any requests to the Talent Acquisition team.

About us

At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence.

As a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom, Raytheon UK helps to solve our customers' toughest challenges. We are a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. We also provide digital and training transformation solutions to commercial and military customers.

With circa 2000 employees and major facilities operating throughout the UK including Broughton (Wales), Livingston and Glenrothes (Scotland), and Harlow, Gloucester, and Manchester (England); we are committed to investing in British careers and technology development.

Through advanced technology and our people's expertise, our Training Transformation Services is modernising what's possible in the training and preparation of our armed forces. With a real blended approach to learning and using the latest innovative systems and technology, we ensure our service men and women really are prepared for any situation.
Role & Responsibilities

MCTS is a sophisticated and versatile training platform used by the Royal Navy providing state of the art classroom and simulation training facilities delivering maritime warfare training in controlled environments.

MCTS Maintainers play a pivotal part in ensuring training equipment is prepared and ready for use; defects are promptly addressed; spares are controlled; and Customer KPI requirements are met on a daily basis. Accountable directly to the MCTS Lead Maintainer; working both individually and as part of a dual-site team, maintainers will work with a variety of modern simulation and training technology solutions, ensuring their readiness for training and seamless provision during the training day.

Working in a fast moving commercial/military environment, where swift response is required to emerging issues and defects, MCTS Maintainers must be suitably experienced in this field and flexible in their approach and response to a complex series of possible calls on their expertise.
Responsibilities

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• Systems Familiarity: Maintainers are responsible for, and must develop, sustainable working competency to promptly solve a variety of operating issues/defects on Customer Furnished and Government Furnished equipment's (CFE and GFE) which form the MCTS TE outfit.

Training Equipment (TE) Preparation: Prepare assigned training spaces/equipment for training to meet 'Ready for Training' requirements as specified in the Agreed Training Schedule (ATS).

Maintain TE Hardware: Assure availability and serviceability of in use TE in assigned spaces to deliver correctly prepared/formatted TE to meet the training schedule.

Assist wider team as required/available. Includes Fault/Defect diagnosis; LRU replacement.
Preventative/Corrective Maintenance: Undertake general, routine, preventative and corrective maintenance activities for MCTS systems and support equipment to assure continuity of service.

Administer Systems: Undertake a variety of system administration and maintenance tasks across the range of MCTS Training Equipment. Includes updating systems (patches etc), data-logging, password control and administration of Learning Management Systems. Includes the loading of required System and exercise software, updates, and OED.

Effective Response: A key part of the MCTS Maintainer role is to provide rapid, prioritised response to defects arising on in-use TE to minimise training downtime. A key Customer KPI.

Spares/Fault Management: Use bespoke Hardware Management System to log and report defects/shortfalls. Assist in compilation of technical spares management data and records.

Ensure: To ensure Company health, safety and environmental procedures are implemented and complied with at all times.

Be 'Responsible for championing and fostering a culture of Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) compliance and continuous improvement'.

Any other duties required to complete the Training Equipment Service.

Required experience

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• Previous Experience of configuring, installing, maintaining a range software; System Start-up and Shutdowns.

Aware: Working knowledge of some or all of the following Operating Systems: User Administration of SUSE Linux; UNIX Administration (Solaris and HP-UX); Windows Administration (W2003 and W2012). Administration of Windows Server 2003 with XP. Comptia Network A+; Compucat / ICX, MCSA on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 (or later); Novell Certified Linux Engineer 10 or Equivalent. (Later versions as appropriate).

Ability to interface with outfitted systems to undertake expected system administration and management functions.

Able to analyse defects/technical issues and succinctly report/input the necessary detail into logging and analysis tools. Spares Management: Undertake spares/logistics tasks associated with spares management.

Undertake roles necessary to ensure the sustainability, serviceability, administration, security and maintenance of encrypted (JMNIAN) link systems for training and interoperability.

Developed, Substantive knowledge and experience of managing and maintaining an array of technical, training equipment portfolios, including networks, with a team of dedicated technical staff across 2 dispersed locations.

Demonstrate a clear ability to maintain effective dialogue with all internal and external stakeholders at all levels in the execution of this role to ensure all operational and support requirements of your team and training equipment infrastructure meet expected operational requirements and tempos.

Desirable experience

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• Awareness of RN warfare equipment and methodologies.

Maintain and assure the provision of Video-teleconference (VTC) links between remotely linked sites.

PAT Testing Competency.

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