Job Title: Assistant Technical Authority – Naval Architecture

Location: Glasgow – Scotstoun – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: Up to £57,100 (dependent on skills and experience)

What you’ll be doing:

Reviewing Intact and Damage Stability Calculations/Submission, providing feedback to the Technical Authority and Delivery team

Reviewing Lightship Weight Breakdown and Margins, providing feedback to the Technical Authority and Delivery team

Reviewing Hydrodynamic Assessments and providing feedback to the Technical Authority and Delivery team

Support the Technical Authority – Naval Architecture in achieving certification and classification

Supporting product safety and environment with Hazard management

Supporting application of governance within the covered domains

Issue resolution within the covered domains

Your skills and experiences:

Applicants should ideally be Degree qualified, likely to be in a technology, engineering, science or IT related discipline

Applicants should be a Chartered Engineer or hold another equivalent professional registration with a relevant institution

Undertaken Intact and Damage Stability Calculations and Assessments

Understanding weights analysis to extensive level

Ability to assess hydrodynamics

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

River Class Destroyer team:

The River Class Destroyer Project is part of Canada’s National Shipbuilding Strategy. The CSC Project includes the design and construction of River-Class Destroyer (RCD) Ships, as part of a broader modernization effort underway in the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN). The Government of Canada (CANADA) defence strategy states the requirement to replace Canada’s destroyers and frigates to ensure that the Canadian Armed Forces can continue to monitor and defend Canadian waters and make significant contributions to international naval operations. This position reports to the Naval Architecture Technical Authority who works alongside other Technical Authorities reporting to the chief engineer. The role will provide support within the chief engineers team to ensure robust application of governance in the Naval Architecture domain

Why BAE Systems?

This is a place where you’ll be able to make a real difference. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date 2nd March 2026

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

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