Principal Engineer – Pre-Operations

Job Description

Job title: Principal Engineer – Pre-Operations

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: Circa £43,000

What you’ll be doing: 

• Responsible for managing members of the asset integration team and delivery of work scopes
• Scoping and delivering asset integration and pre-operational activities for major site and infrastructure projects
• Developing integration strategies and through life management plans
• Liaising with and managing key stakeholders within the project, and end user function
• Responsible for the integration of new assets and infrastructure into site business management systems
• Implementing post-handover asset management arrangements
• Production and validation of working level instructions
• Deriving and developing operations, maintenance and asset management strategies

Your skills and experiences:  

Essential:

• Degree qualified in a STEM subject, or equivalent engineering, maintenance, or operational experience
• An understanding of Asset Management principles
• Experience working within asset integration, or pre-operations
• Significant experience in managing complex stakeholder relationships
• Experience in managing scopes of work to challenging schedules
• Experience in the production and validation of working level instructions

Desirable:

• Experience or exposure of project transitions to operations
• Basic understand of asset management

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 Asset Integration Team:

This is an exciting and early opportunity to join a new team, tasked with integrating significant infrastructure expansion into the business, whilst individually being given the opportunity for professional growth within the function. We offer relocation support 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 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 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: 6th December 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.

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