Defence Diving School Maintainer Instructor

Date Posted:

2026-08-05

Country:

United Kingdom

Location:

Portsmouth, Portsmouth

Position Role Type:

Onsite

Defence Diving School Maintainer Instructor

Location: Portsmouth

Permanent

Benefits:

• £: 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

• 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

To deliver high quality Maintenance /Instruction on specific Military diving equipment in line with Company standards and contractual requirements.

Responsibilities

• Continually improve the way they contribute to the business
• Ensure that they are best equipped to support future change
• Ensure that they work in an effective collaborative manner with MoD staff, displaying the appropriate behaviours always.
• 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.
• To be responsible for the maintenance of the equipment within their area of responsibility to standard laid down in the Planned Maintenance Schedules (PMS), to record the maintenance carried out, report all defects, material shortcomings and design deficiencies as appropriate.
• To be responsible for the replacement, issue, storage, return and defect repair on all equipment within their area of responsibility.
• To instruct maintenance in accordance with relevant Instructional Specifications on their primary subject.
• To assist Lead Instructor in updating training documentation, related to their primary subject, to reflect equipment maintenance.
• To instruct courses, iaw ISpec, for which SQEP is held, as directed by Lead Instructor.
• To gain and maintain both technical and instructional qualification and experience in secondary subjects as directed by Line Management.
• To gain and maintain instructional & technical SQEP in accordance with company guidelines and policy.
• To be custodian of Articles in Use account and maintain their account iaw with latest instructions
• Deliver briefings to staff or trainees as required by Line Management.
• Ensure that the maintenance of all Team Fisher (DDS) Training Equipment is carried out to enable equipment performance standards to be met and the training programme maintained.
• Record the implementation of equipment maintenance on existing systems, to ensure performance is maintained in accordance with manufactures technical guidance.

Required experience

• Previous experience of servicing mechanical/electrical equipment in a marine and/or military environment.
• Previous experience of fault finding, diagnosing and repairing mechanical or electrical equipment.
• Maintenance of Diving Equipment or similar Safety to Life Equipment

Desirable experience

• Level 3Teaching Qualification.
• ECDL or equivalent demonstratable proficiency in using IT (hardware/software) within the workplace.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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