Maintenance Engineer

Maintenance Engineer
Company: Martin-Baker Aircraft
Location: Denham, Buckinghamshire
Salary: Competitive with benefits

Job Summary
A career in aerospace with a British engineering firm that is saving lives worldwide. When you work at Martin-Baker, you’re providing pilots with their last form of defence. Martin-Baker is the world’s leading manufacturer of ejection seats, helping to protect aircrew in the world’s most advanced military aircraft.

Our mission is simple - to save aircrew lives.

What you’ll be doing
Join us on this mission as a Maintenance Engineer within the friendly and supportive Machine Shop Department, based in Denham Buckinghamshire. The purpose of the role is to carry out maintenance and repair of all CNC machines and equipment within the Machine Shop so that down time is minimised, and productions targets met.

Aspects of the role
• Follow Total Preventative Maintenance schedule for machines and equipment. Replacement of worn parts and wiring in accordance with machine manuals and specifications.
• Repair machines and equipment as needed bring in external suppliers as required.
• Transport materials and finished parts and components to the required locations using the forklift truck and lifting equipment.
• The future of engineering and manufacturing is changing. To future-proof your career, Martin-Baker will always keep investing in your development. That’s a long-term promise because we want to learn from you, so keeping your skills up to date is important to us, and important for our future. We’re after people who are curious and enjoy solving problems.
• The role will enable you to collaborate and work with other teams across the Martin-Baker organisation. We’re a Company that saves lives. Join us.

Characteristics & Skills
• Certified IEE 18 Edition Wiring Regulations
• Forklift Licence
• Use of hand tools and testers
• Experience of working within manufacturing and with CNC machine tools typically 5 & 4 axis machining centres and CNC turning machines.
• Grade Pass in GCSE Maths/English (or equivalent)
• Manual dexterity

Your benefits in detail
• Highly competitive 9% non-contributory pension scheme (18+)
• 4x salary Life Assurance (18+)
• Lunchtime finishes every Friday.
• Personalised training and development plan
• Healthcare Cash Plan
• 25-days annual leave plus bank holidays
• Opportunity to purchase additional annual leave.
• Workplace Nursery Benefit scheme
• Cycle to work scheme.
• We believe in equal opportunity. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment where everyone is respected. We want you to be able to do your best work.

For all successful candidates, Martin-Baker will undertake background security checks. As part of this, we will need to confirm your identity, employment history and address history to cover the past five years as well as your nationality, immigration status and criminal record.

For positions that require Security Clearance, the successful candidate must hold or be willing to obtain security clearance up to the relevant level for the role.