Senior Asset Suppression Specialist

About BAE Systems Saudi Arabia

BAE Systems is the UK Government’s nominated Prime Contractor under Government-to-Government arrangements to provide equipment, support, and training to Saudi Arabia. The company maintains Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) aircraft and trains RSAF and Royal Saudi Naval Force personnel in the safe use of their aircraft, equipment, and weapons. BAE Systems Saudi Arabia supports the Saudi Arabian National Agenda, including Saudisation and the development of Saudi National capability through partner companies, reinforcing industrialisation and partnerships.

Role Overview

The Senior Asset Suppression Specialist will support and enhance tactical and strategic asset management by identifying, prioritising, and controlling key assets that directly influence fleet performance, particularly aircraft availability Key Performance Measures (KPMs). This role ensures the organisation sustains current SSS Ph4 performance levels and is prepared to meet future Ph5 requirements. The position is full-time and based in Taif, offering a competitive salary.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the Asset Suppression Team under the direction of the Salam Support Chain Optimisation Manager, ensuring the asset management process is fully optimised to reduce criticality and sustain or improve fleet availability across the RSAF Typhoon programme.
• Identify and deliver mitigations that reduce individual asset criticality, preserve availability, and drive measurable improvements in asset and platform performance.
• Execute core team management responsibilities, including resource allocation, task planning, prioritisation of activities, and completion of mandatory leadership duties such as training compliance, PDRs, and performance oversight.
• Ensure compliance with Safety, Health, and Environment (SHE) requirements, including adherence to local SHE plans, timely reporting of hazardous occurrences, and accurate collation and submission of accident/incident data.
• Build and maintain effective stakeholder relationships with RSAF customers, MODSAP, PC teams, and Typhoon core programme personnel, ensuring strong tactical and strategic integration, coordinated mitigation activity, and consistent stakeholder engagement.
• Provide regular reporting on findings, status, achievements, and performance indicators, ensuring transparency and informed decision-making.
• Support Taif Operational and Management Reviews through the provision of data, analysis, recommendations, and updates relating to asset suppression activities.
• Contribute to Engineering and Life Cycle Management activities as required, including engineering change definition, capability insertion, and the promotion of Learning from Experience (LfE) into future contract negotiations and programme improvements.

Required Experience

Candidates should possess 5-10 years of relevant experience in asset management, particularly within an operational environment focused on fleet performance and availability. The role requires proven leadership capabilities and a strong understanding of data-driven problem-solving and mitigation strategies.

Team Leadership and Optimisation

This role involves leading and managing the established Asset Suppression Team to ensure asset control within the operational environment is fully optimised. This includes driving robust management practices, identifying constraints, inefficiencies, and single-point criticalities, and delivering practical, data-driven solutions, efficiencies, and mitigations that reduce asset vulnerability and maintain or increase overall fleet availability.