MCR Operations Engineer
£40,000 / yr base salary
Posted 10 Oct 2026
Advertised as “MCR Operations Engineer - 12 months FTC”
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| Base salary | £40,000 / yr |
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MCR Operations Engineer - 12 months FTC
Location - Crawley Court, Winchester.
We offer
- 12 months FTC
- Up to £40K base salary
- 20% shift allowance
- 6% pension contribution
- Private Medical
- 25 days annual leave
- Access to our comprehensive flexible benefits including discounts on big brands, wellness and employee assistance programmes, gymflex, buy and sell annual leave, travel and dental insurance
- Work. Life. Smarter. Our commitment to a flexible and hybrid working culture
Purpose
MCR Engineer To provide technical support to internal and external customers to improve service performance and protect network availability.
Accountabilities:
- Use monitoring and control systems to control, configure and operate equipment, systems, networks and platforms, directly and remotely
- Provide network monitoring and event management through the Operation Support Systems (OSS) in line with Service Level Agreements and network availability figures
- Take corrective action and ensure incidents are directed to the correct resolver group to secure rapid resolution
- Enter accurate incident reports/logs and service details/schedules into the system and track reported incidents to satisfactory resolution
- Drive the resolution of service affecting events, creating incidents, applying technical and engineering knowledge and escalating to appropriate resolver groups where necessary
- Communicate maintenance schedules of Arqiva’s in life products and services to internal and external stakeholders.
- Operation of Customers services as part of the team of MCR Operations Engineers.
- Assisting in operation of managed services to Service Level Agreement.
- Responsible for the reporting of equipment and system problems, and for drafting incident reports.
- Control, configuration and operation of equipment directly and remotely using monitoring and control systems.
- Reporting service details to customers
- Logging service details
- Monitoring of services carried by Arqiva
- Switching feeds
- Specific services responsibilities as requested
- Instigation of call out and fault escalation procedures
- Occasional Maintenance and project work
- Contribution to the information systems in the MCR
- Carry out any tasks commensurate with your post as directed by the Team Leader
- Required to work as part of a 24-hour operational team including regular weekend and night working.