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About BAE Systems Saudi Arabia

BAE Systems is the UK Government’s nominated Prime Contractor under Government-to-Government arrangements, providing 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 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.

The Role: Typhoon Capability Integration Manager

This full-time role is based in Taif and involves leading and coordinating the engineering integration and Entry-Into-Service (EIS) activities for Typhoon capability changes. The manager ensures that new or modified capabilities are safe, supportable, configuration-controlled, operationally ready, and capable of successful handover into the Salam support environment at King Fahad Air Base (KFdAB).

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate engineering integration and EIS for Typhoon capability changes, ensuring safety, supportability, configuration control, and operational readiness for handover into the Salam support environment at KFdAB.
• Liaise with senior customer, internal BAE Systems, and partner-company stakeholders on engineering, supportability, and readiness issues related to capability deployment and EIS.
• Represent BAE Systems Saudi Arabia at customer and internal change, readiness, and acceptance forums for Typhoon capability insertion and deployment.
• Represent BAE Systems Saudi Arabia in relevant release, acceptance, and readiness forums to support the safe and effective introduction of capability into service.
• Coordinate Capability Insertion activity with safety, engineering, and support stakeholders to maintain operational safety, risk controls, and supporting assurance evidence throughout deployment.
• Ensure support requirements are captured, assessed, and coordinated through engineering design and review processes to ensure new or modified capability is supportable within the Salam Support environment.
• Lead the engineering integration and handover of approved capability changes into the operational service and in-service support environment.
• Ensure support solution readiness and cross-functional closure of actions related to safety, supportability, training, technical information, equipment, logistics, and operational deployment.

Accountabilities

• Develop and maintain effective relationships with customers, internal BAE Systems, and partner-company stakeholders to support the planning, integration, and deployment of cost-effective future capability into the fleet.
• Manage end-to-end engineering integration activity for capability insertion target events. This includes capturing, initiating, and progressing capability insertion activity through relevant engineering, readiness, and governance processes.
• Lead or support maturity, readiness, and candidate selection reviews for proposed capability changes, ensuring engineering and support impacts are understood and communicated.
• Support capability insertion and change activity across applicable Salam, customer, and partner-company programmes and contracts.
• Lead and coordinate engineering review and readiness assurance activity for selected capability changes as they progress through the applicable maturity and governance process.
• Support progression of capability changes through agreed engineering, readiness, harmonisation, and handover stages.
• Manage the Typhoon Operational Readiness Review (ORR) process for new capability deployment at KFdAB (Taif), ensuring readiness evidence is coordinated and closure actions are managed to completion.
• Ensure supportability, safety, training, technical information, equipment, logistics, and operational impacts are identified, assessed, and addressed for each capability change.
• Coordinate and support hazard identification, safety review, and assurance activity associated with capability insertion and Entry-Into-Service.
• Support the preparation and review of customer change proposal documentation and associated readiness evidence.
• Support other customer Operational Readiness Reviews (ORRs), as required.
• Coordinate engineering support to Flight & Ground Trials, qualification, and capability acceptance activity.

Work Environment

This is a full-time position based in Taif, Saudi Arabia, supporting BAE Systems' operations with the Royal Saudi Air Force.