Typhoon Ground Support Systems

**Ground Support Systems (GSS) Systems Administrator**

**Grade: 5**

**Location: Taif, Saudi Arabia**

**JOB PURPOSE**

BAE Systems is the UK Government’s nominated Prime Contractor under the Government-to-Government arrangements that are in place to provide equipment, support and training to Saudi Arabia. We provide maintenance of Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) aircraft and train RSAF and Royal Saudi Naval Force personnel safely in a training environment in how to use their aircraft, equipment and weapons.

BAE Systems Saudi Arabia is committed to supporting the Saudi Arabian National Agenda including Saudisation and the training and development of Saudi National capability through the growth of the Saudi National Partner Companies thereby reinforcing Industrialisation and Partnerships.

**JOB ACCOUNTABILITIES**

The function of the Ground Support Systems (GSS) Administrator is to deliver the engineering and technical aspects encompassed in GSS, to ensure the continuous availability of the mission critical GSS. The GSS Administrator will provide management, maintenance and administration of the GSS, ensuring that day-to-day liaison between the GSS Team Leaders, TSC, Fwd Ops, and the RSAF GSS Administrators is carried out and all stakeholders have a clear understanding of any aspects that could affect GSS availability. In addition all GSS Administrators will be responsible to the GSS Team Leader for the following:

- Delivery of all Typhoon GSS Administration activities associated with the delivery, mobilisation and maintenance of all GSS installations in support of RSAF Typhoon operations at main operating bases and KSA based deployments.
- Ensure that system hardware, operating systems, software systems and related procedures adhere to Approved Data and qualified processes.
- Support project teams with technical issues in the design, planning, initialisation and rollout of solutions to provide GSS capability to the Salam organisation.
- Installation, configuration, operation and maintenance of system hardware and software related to the GSS Operational infrastructure to be utilised in support of GSS activities.
- Raise Technical Publications Request Form (TPRF’s) against approved data when necessary.
- Understand all aspects of GSS and its associated systems and how their availability impacts on the Business objectives, understand how their respective roles align with the overall Business plan.
- Assist with the transfer of knowledge, mentoring, counterpart development and consolidation activities with the RSAF GSS System Administrators and PC SNs.
- Responsible to the GSS Team Leader for the delivery of the Typhoon GSS Administrator Service to the RSAF.
- Ensure compliance with all governance requirements of the Operational Framework including; ITAR, LCM, planning, monitoring, change control.
- Ensure adherence of all SHE and Quality Assurance standards across all GSS related activities, including compliance with all related regulations, policies and procedures

**RECRUITMENT SPECIFICATION**
- Extensive proven experience within the field of Operational IT, Infrastructure management and service delivery in respect of GSS.
- Ideally educated to bachelor degree level in a relevant computer science or engineering discipline.
- High level of interpersonal skills, able to co-ordinate a number of activities and the ability to communicate, influence and direct decision making.
- Relevant GSS hardware qualifications (Fujitsu, NetApp, Cisco).
- Relevant GSS software qualifications (MS Windows, Oracle, AIX).
- Aircraft data management experience.
- TeamCenter experience.
- IMS experience.
- trilogiView experience.
- WDMS experience.***

**Recruitment**

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- Extensive experience in systems installation, setting to work, commissioning and customer acceptance of IT systems.
- Change management of IT systems.
- Configuration and baseline management of IT systems.
- Leadership, delegation and team building skills for the effective people management.
- Maintenance of inter-team dependencies across suppliers and customer boundaries.

**EXPATRIATE EMPLOYEE BENEFITS**

**SAUDI NATIONAL EMPLOYEE BENEFITS**

In return for the required high levels of commitment and hard work you will receive a competitive salary and benefits package, including a generous leave and travel allowance, a full health care scheme and access to subsidised recreational facilities

**BAE Systems**

At BAE Systems, we provide some of the world’s most advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions. We employ a skilled workforce of 89,600 people in more than 40 countries. Working with customers and local partners, we develop, engineer, manufacture, and support products and systems to deliver military capability, protect national security and people, and keep critical information and infrastructure secure.