Engineer – Safety and Environmental Engineering

Job Description

Job Title: Engineer – Safety and Environmental Engineering (Product Environmental)

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: Competitive

What you’ll be doing:

• As an environmental specialist you will be involved in a wide range of environmental activities with responsibility for gathering, assessing and reporting the environmental information that will help demonstrate the environmental case for each submarine including:
• Supporting system owners with design of systems
• Undertaking environmental impact and risk assessments
• Collating evidence and producing documents to support the environmental case
• Supporting net zero and carbon management/footprinting activities
• Stakeholder engagement across organisations and disciplines to ensure that the customer requirements for the platform are met

Your skills and experiences:

Essential

• Understanding of sustainability and environmental requirements in the context of product design.
• Understanding of environmental assessment and identification of environmental aspects across the lifecycle
• Ability to evaluate environmental and technical data
• Understanding of net zero and carbon management/footprinting
• Report writing / presentation skills and ability to effectively convey environmental information
• Degree or equivalent in Environmental or Sustainability related discipline

Desirable

• Broad understanding of one or more of the following: Environmental Management Systems, Materials Technology, Environmental Legislation, Disposal and/or Net Zero
• Defence experience

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 Product Environmental team:

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Product Environmental Team, ever growing area within the business. You will be joining a small team of 7 members and supporting both SSNA and Dreadnaught Programmes. You will engage with System owners, legislation team, sustainability department as well as customers. Within this role there will be opportunities for further training and career progression.

We offer relocation support packages 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: 2nd 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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