Senior Engineer – Site Engineering Authority

Job Description

Job title: Senior Engineer – Site Engineering Authority

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: From £38,734+ depending on skills and experience  

What you’ll be doing:

·        Creating through life asset management plans defining fit for purpose maintenance strategies and prioritised investment demands to enable the site assets to deliver its strategic objectives

·        Providing independent Engineering Authority across all Site & Facilities Assets for any breaches or potential breaches of Regulatory or internal SHE arrangements

·        Providing technical engineering advice & support to the maintenance, operations & project teams

·        Producing / approving engineering functional requirements, accepting design solution, maintaining engineering oversight, validating engineering integrity, protecting & maintaining engineering baseline for all projects on Site & Facilities assets

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

·        Minimum HNC level education in a STEM related subject or equivalent engineering, maintenance, or operational experience

·        Professional engineering background with good understanding of key legal obligations for managing facilities & assets

·        Experience in managing complex stakeholder relationships

·        Experience in managing scopes of work to challenging schedules

Desirable:

·        An understanding of Asset Management principles

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.

The Site Engineering Authority team:

This is an exciting time to take up a new engineering challenge in a thriving Defence industry.  At BAE Systems Barrow-In-Furness, due to growth we are expanding and developing our site facilities to accommodate a new fleet of MoD Submarines.  Joining a newly-formed team of site engineers, you will help to ensure that Barrow’s Infrastructure services and assets (such as utilities, telecoms, transport and security etc) are safe, legal and compliant. You’ll achieve this by providing oversight, governance and independent site engineering assurance to all future Engineering activities and systematically reviewing existing arrangements.

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: 13th December 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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