Senior Engineer – Site Engineering Authority

Job Title: Senior Engineer – Site Engineering Authority

Location: Barrow-in-Furness – Hybrid (2-3 days per week 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: From £42,215 (DOE)

Who we are:

Join BAE Systems and you’ll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you’ll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You’ll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow, shaping a safer future, for all of us.

From the depths of the ocean, to the far reaches of space, there’s no limit to where a career at BAE Systems could take you.

Job Description:

In this role, you will collaborate with internal stakeholders such as site engineering, plant maintenance, and shipyard teams, alongside external contractors and specialists. You will manage full asset lifecycles through validation, modification control, and criticality assessment. Through review, surveillance, and audit, you will ensure engineering data, assumptions, and methodologies are validated. You will support functional design, qualification, acceptance, and safety evidence, ensuring regulatory compliance, while providing clear project updates, implementing recovery actions, and assuring robust, safety‑case‑compliant designs.

Core duties:

• Ensure assets meet functional, performance, safety and regulatory requirements through structured validation activities, evidence review and conformity assessments
• Manage the end-to-end modification control process, ensuring all changes are assessed, authorised, documents and communicated
• Develop, maintain and review Through Life Management Plans
• Conduct asset criticality and risk assessments to identify high risk systems and components, enabling effective prioritisation to support operational continuity and safety
• Oversee assets from concept and design, through operation, maintenance, modification and disposal, ensuring lifecycle decisions are aligned with organisational, safety and regulatory objectives

Essential Skills:

• HNC minimum or equivalent, with progression toward a degree in an engineering discipline
• Experience in asset management or a related engineering environment
• Awareness of Health & Safety requirements and safe working practice

The SEA Top Yard Engineering Authority Team:

This role offers considerable potential for future growth, with opportunities to broaden responsibility and develop capability as the function and site continue to evolve. You will gain visibility across the whole site, working with a wide range of stakeholders and asset types, providing a unique end‑to‑end view of operations. The position combines asset management and project support, allowing you to contribute where the need is greatest and build a diverse skill set. With a varied workload and exposure to both strategic and hands‑on activities, this is a dynamic role well suited to someone who enjoys variety, collaboration, and continuous development. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

Why BAE Systems?

Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work, this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best. You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family, support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.

A place where everyone can thrive:

We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.

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: 4th May 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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