Senior Facilities Definition Engineer

Job title: Senior Facilities Definition Engineer

Location: Samlesbury/Warton

Salary:   £47,683+

What you’ll be doing:

• Gaining a detailed understanding of the aircraft support and training requirements to develop ‘suitable and compliant’ facility and infrastructure solutions for customers on airbases and locations in the UK and overseas.
• Applying Engineering principles within a required management framework as per defined process
• Preforming within a multi discipline environment with exposure to a diverse range of activities
• Capturing and understanding of Product Support and Training requirements of multi platforms and products within the Air sector arena
• Providing support to the management team around operational planning and new business ‘bid submission’ activities.
• There may be a requirement for national and international travel assignments as part of the role

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Good working knowledge of Air Sector products from either Industry, Royal Air Force, Royal Navy or Army
• Practical experience of Forward, Depth and Training requirements for ‘fast jet’ aircraft within an operational environment
• Computer literate with good MS Office skills with particular emphasis on MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint
• Application of Project Management in the daily working environment and project delivery

Desirable:

• HNC (or equivalent) in either Electrical, Electronic or Mechanical Engineering. Significant experience in a related discipline including practical experience is required
• Experience in Computer Aided Design
• A working knowledge of Facilities within an armed service environment

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 Infrastructure & Facilities Services team:

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the AIR Sector, Infrastructure & Facilities Services department within Digital, Data & Infrastrucutre as a Senior Facilities Definition Engineer at Samlesbury. Reporting to the Facilities Definition Manager the successful candidate will support the AIR Sector business at Air and Customer locations in the UK and overseas.

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 of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and 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: 20^th June 2025

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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