Principal Engineer - Site Engineering Authority

About the job

Job Title: Principal 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: Negotiable, depending on your skills and experience

What You'll Be Doing:

• You will be responsible for specific systems including conducting site / asset walk-arounds, ensuring compliance with site License / Authorising conditions
• Delivery of engineering documentation to support asset and facility readiness in order to achieve programme Hold Points
• Understanding new requirements across the business and supporting requirements captures to ensure asset and facility performance meets programme and legislative requirements
• Providing engineering assurance across Projects, Operations and Maintenance
• Responsibility for asset management across defined assets, ensuring we are maintaining our assets throughout their lifecycle
• Identifying opportunities to improve processes and supporting the site modification process
• Verifying engineering calculations, analysis, designs and other documentation, to ensure compliance and validity

Your skills and experiences:

• Possess a relevant Engineering qualification
• Have experience with Asset Management and Facilities Management
• Experience with Management of Nuclear classified systems including but not limited to Design, Operation and/or Modifications.
• Experience in related industry such as; Nuclear, Oil and Gas etc. would be advantageous

Benefits:

You'll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You'll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Site Engineering Authority:

An exciting opportunity to join us as a Principal Engineer, where you will be providing engineering assurance across the site within projects, process and operations. You will gain exposure working across different programmes / boats, making sure facilities are right for the current programmes, as well as making sure the facilities and assets are correct for future programmes. The team act as a verification function, ensuring that work is compliant with statutory requirements, site license conditions and business processes. There is scope for processing within the team when the time is right, this could look like into Engineering Management.

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, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you'll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also 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 working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Closing Date: 4th April 2024

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.