Job Title: Principal Engineering Manager – Specialist Structures Department

Location: Barrow-in-Furness (On site). We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Circa £80,000 plus car allowance and bonus, depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

Lead and manage engineering teams, subcontractors, and partners to ensure successful project delivery

Plan, allocate, and develop engineering resources to meet contract, budget, and schedule requirements

Oversee the design and delivery of integrated engineering solutions, resolving technical challenges as needed

Ensure compliance with safety, quality, cost, and schedule commitments throughout the project lifecycle

Drive continuous improvement in engineering processes to optimise performance and efficiency

Act as the main technical point of contact for internal and external stakeholders, ensuring alignment with customer requirements

Provide technical governance and assurance, including sign-off of key legal, design, and engineering deliverables

Lead and contribute to design reviews, technical bid reviews, and risk management activities

Your skills and experiences:

Engineering degree (or equivalent) and Chartered Engineer status (or equivalent experience)

Solid engineering background, ideally in shipbuilding, heavy lifting, nuclear, or related sectors

Experience leading multidisciplinary engineering and build teams

Strong understanding of the full engineering product lifecycle — from design through build, manufacture, testing, and modification

Experience with budget and resource management, including CAM responsibilities and team approvals

Skilled in managing subcontractors, including cost negotiation, outsourcing, and oversight of jigs or tooling

Ability to assess, test, and approve jigs or tooling to ensure quality and compliance standards are met

Practical experience working within or alongside engineering and build delivery teams

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.

The team:

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a highly specialised team within our newly developed shipyard. The team designs and produces jigs, specialised tooling fixtures that hold components in place, align parts precisely, guide tools during manufacturing or maintenance, and ensure repeatability and accuracy throughout the build process. You’ll be part of a collaborative, solution-focused group known for strong leadership, excellent stakeholder management, and a calm, adaptable approach to complex, fast-changing environments. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

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 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 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 , 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 in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 30th July 2025

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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