Principal Manufacturing Engineer – Capability Build Line

Job Description

Job Title: Principal Manufacturing Engineer – Capability for Build Line

Location: Barrow-in-Furness. We offer a range of flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: From £45,628 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Maintaining a consistent ‘discipline’ approach across the projects on behalf of the Head of Discipline (Manufacturing Engineering Manager), for Build Line Support
• Ensuring that the assembly sequence and content is followed; ensuring critical inspections stages and hold points are maintained, and thereby reducing rework
• Undertaking detailed Process Failure Mode Effect Analysis (PFMEA) activities in advance of production start to de-risk downstream manufacturing processes and systems
• Ensuring compliance with the Engineering policies, ensuring safety, conformance, competency and capability within the Skill Stream
• Providing guidance and support across the Skill Stream through various means
• Collaborating with Quality Control/Engineering to carry out verification and validation activities using ‘Six-sigma’ tools to establish a stable and capable process

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• HNC or an equivalent technical qualification, or relevant experience
• Project Management experience
• Ability to analyse complex problems and identify the most critical issues
• Understanding of relevant tools (software based or otherwise) such as PLM, SAP, Teamcenter, AutoCAD or SolidWorks

Desirable:

• CEng/IEng accredited or willing to work towards this accreditation
• Experience leading a team

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 Manufacturing Engineering team:

This unique team operates differently from the major programmes in that it’s the only role covering all of the programmes. This varied and exciting role offers great exposure across the business and in groups in different sectors. 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: 11^th 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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