Principal Manufacturing Engineer Design for Manufacture

Barrow-in-Furness

Submarines

Operations / Manufacturing

Experienced professionals

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Job Description

Job Title: Principal Manufacturing Engineer – Design for Manufacture

Location: Barrow-in-Furness – Onsite

Salary: Competitive

 

What you’ll be doing: 

  • Reviewing all internal and external customer interface requirements and confirming or defining the overall tolerance requirement for the build
  • Working in conjunction with the Engineering, Quality Control and MBP to define proposed datum systems and tolerance cascades/aggregation, based on agreed build philosophies, variation analysis and the current manufacturing capabilities
  • Feeding back the tolerances and datum schemes into the design process on the 2D drawing outputs and 3D models in order to capture the design for manufacturing and assembly intent
  • Supporting Manufacturing Build Planning through interaction with Dimensional Control to confirm mandatory hold and inspection points in the build sequence and production routings
  • Identifying appropriate measurement and setting techniques to support an efficient and accurate build sequence, which will maintain the design intent
  • Specifying tools and techniques to be included in manufacturing instructions and provide the build teams with the capability to control key product characteristics at each stage of the build
  • Setting build tolerances to manage tolerance aggregation and ensure these are marked on drawings separately to the design tolerances set by Engineering

Your skills and experiences:

Essential

  • HNC or equivalent technical qualification or significant experience
  • CEng / IEng accredited, or willingness to work towards achieving it
  • Leadership and Management Qualifications / Programmes or equivalent (either already awarded, or willingness to obtain)
  • Project Management experience
  • Ability to analyse complex problems and identify the most critical issues

Desirable

  • An excellent understanding of all relevant tools (software based or otherwise)

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 Process and Standards team:

As a part of the Process and Standards team, you will be reporting to the Manufacturing Engineering Manager. The purpose of the team is primarily to ensure that we have suitable and effective processes and people capabilities in place for the Manufacturing Engineering function. You will have the opportunity to influence decisions and enable the Operations teams to deliver the design intent safely and in the most efficient way.

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: 13th November 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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