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Job Title: Senior Engineer – Site Engineering Authority

Location: Barrow-In-Furness – 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 £49,000 depending on experience

What you’ll be doing:

Acting as Engineering Authority for your prescribed area, covering all buildings and fixed assets. Provide independent engineering governance and assurance across those assets

Offering technical and specialist engineering advice & support to maintenance, operations, and project teams

Producing engineering functional requirements and accepting design solutions. Maintaining engineering oversight and validating engineering integrity

Protecting/maintaining the engineering baseline for all accepted assets and infrastructure in your prescribed area, including configuration management and asset change control

Developing, managing, and controlling planned maintenance schedules & approving any maintenance concessions

Delivering through life asset management plans/health reports for key assets to ensure asset base can deliver current and future submarine/boat programme requirements

Providing engineering advice/support during equipment breakdowns and assisting recovery activities

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

Degree level qualification in a relevant Engineering/Science discipline or sufficient relevant experience

Experience with Asset Management and Facilities Management

Desirable:

Prior experience with nuclear classified systems (design, operation, modifications etc.)

Industry experience from nuclear, oil and gas or similar heavily regulated sectors

Ability to become a Chartered Engineer

Experience of working at heights, including working with cranes/structures/steam plants/water, gas & air plants/Local Exhaust Ventilation Systems (LEV) & general machinery would be beneficial

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 Site, Infrastructure & Facilities Team

The Site, Infrastructure & Facilities team is a critical function within BAE Systems Submarines, responsible for ensuring that the physical estate, supporting infrastructure, and facilities are safe, compliant, operational, efficient, and capable of supporting current and future submarine programmes. This includes maintaining and modernising the site, managing services & utilities, supporting projects, and ensuring regulatory and safety standards are met. We offer relocation support packages across all submarine’s 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 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 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: 20th 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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