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Lead Maintenance Engineer (Flight Simulators)

Ernest Gordon RecruitmentBurgess Hill, West Sussex🇬🇧United KingdomPosted 10 Sept 2026

Why This Role Stands Out

This hybrid role offers excellent career growth and skill development within a highly reputable aerospace leader, with a competitive salary and a supportive team culture. If you have a background in hydraulics and pneumatics and are looking to lead a team while receiving expert training, this is an exciting opportunity to advance your career. You are encouraged to apply and become a key technical expert in flight simulator maintenance.

Quick Overview

Salary
£50k - £60k/yr
Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Burgess Hill, West Sussex, United Kingdom
Posted
Yesterday

Job Description

Lead Maintenance Engineer (Flight Simulators)

Burgess Hill

£50,000 - £60,000 + 4 on 4 off + Training + Progression + Benefits

Are you a Lead Maintenance Engineer or similar, with prior experience working on hydraulics and pneumatics, from an aviation background or a related field, looking to head up a small team as the technical expert, within a leading aerospace business?

Are you looking to join a highly reputable company, offering a family-feel environment, providing progression and development opportunities, alongside impressive inhouse training from industry experts?

In this role, you will be responsible for planned, preventative and reactive maintenance on simulators and systems, diagnosing, troubleshooting and repairing system faults. You will also run and check qualification test guide schedules alongside working with risk assessments, method statements, COSHH and Lockout/Tagout procedures. Finally, you will assist in training junior technicians.

With over 20 years of history behind them, this fast-growing business aim to continue making a name for themselves in the aviation sector, already recognised as industry leaders within pilot training.

This role would suit a Lead Maintenance Engineer or similar, with prior experience working on hydraulics and/or pneumatics, coming from a background in the aviation sector or a related field looking to further their career.

The Role:

  • Planned, preventative and reactive maintenance on simulators and systems
  • Diagnosing, troubleshooting and repairing system faults
  • Run and check qualification test guide schedules
  • Assist in training junior technicians

The Person:

  • Lead Maintenance Engineer or similar
  • Background in Aviation or a related field
  • Prior experience working with hydraulics/pneumatics/automated systems

Reference: BBBH27174

Aviation, Aerospace, Simulator, Engineer, Lead, Technician, Service, Maintenance, Diagnostics, Controls, Hydraulics, Automation, Burgess Hill, Reading, England

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