Mechanical Systems Engineer

Job Description

Job Title: Mechanical Systems Engineer

Location: Barrow-in-Furness. Requirement to be onsite 3 days a week

Salary: Competitive 

What you’ll be doing:

• Support design maturity and associated design embodiment

• Conduct design review of new document revisions and provide review form comments as required

• Conduct design change analyse which could impact design to system equipment and ensure impacts are understood

• As a supplier facing engineer, liaise with supplier counterpart to address engineering tasking’s within the defined project timescale

• System representative for Factory Acceptance Testing, Witness Events and Integration Activities

• Support timely closures of actions as required by the Engineering manager for the provision of schedule of deliverables

Your skills and experiences:

• A Degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant Scientific/Engineering subject (e.g. Systems Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Physics or Mathematics)

• The ability to build and maintain effective networks across the community including customer and/or supplier liaison experience for technical aspects, verifying and obtaining agreement that customer needs are satisfied

• Ability developing systems in relevant product markets and/or domains, on mechanical systems and instrumentation

• Understanding of information assurance, cyber security and environmental impact aspects relating to real time embedded engineering products would be beneficial

• Experience working through challenging integration problems involving stakeholders with differing and sometimes conflicting wants

• Experience managing multiple tasking’s and priorities

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 Platform Combat Systems Team: 

The Platform Combat Systems Team, work across various mechanical systems such as Weapon Handling and Launch, managing web and handling systems through design and integration. The ideal candidate will be a junior engineer who will be provided further on and off the job training, also with a succession plan to support progression.

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: 27^th November 2023 

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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