Design Engineer

Job Title: Design Engineers – Structures & Outfit External

Location: Portsmouth – 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 £42000depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Design Structural and Outfit arrangements using both 2D and 3D CAD packages
• Preparation of Production manufacturing and installation packages in line with specifications and all quality and technical standards.
• Liaising with Production to resolve onsite Design Queries
• Conducting ship visits to validate the current configuration of the structure, material state and layout
• Keeping up to date in relevant technical areas to develop your skills and capabilities
• Working with our customers to help develop their design requirements
• Supporting apprentices and junior engineers in their development

Your skills and experiences:

• HNC or equivalent in a STEM discipline, or relevant time-served experience
• Design tools experience (AutoCad, Inventor, Foran)
• Experience in Structures and/or Outfit design
• Ideally experience with ship repair or experience within the marine industry
• Requires detailed and comprehensive understanding of design concepts and principles relating to the relevant engineering discipline. Has significant experience and able to apply knowledge to a wide range of design issues.
• Has knowledge and understanding within own discipline and is able to discuss and understand context and implication of technical issues across a limited number of other engineering disciplines pertinent to Ship Engineering.

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 Structure and Outfit team:

The Design Services, Structures & Outfit is an exciting & dynamic workplace with a broad range of experience from Apprentices to Principal Engineers, with approx. 50x engineers in total. We take pride within the team to encourage and fully support development and career progression of our engineers. Our team delivers design solutions across the entire lifecycle from new builds such as Type 26 Frigates to in-service platforms such as Type 45 Destroyers, QE Aircraft Carrier, and Type 23 Frigates.

As the world has evolved, so has the way we work. Our working approach, will enable you to have flexibility with your working hours, depending on your role and location. This could include accruing hours as well as flexibility around start and finish times, ensuring you can balance life at work, on site and life at home.

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 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 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: 5th December 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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