Senior Manufacturing Engineering Manager – Function

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Manufacturing Engineering Manager – Function

Location: Barrow-in-Furness – onsite  

Salary: Competitive

What you’ll be doing: 

• Working with deployed manufacturing engineering managers on all three programmes to allow them to progress the manufacturing engineering mandate
• Focusing on using data and stakeholder engagement, to assure the business that manufacturing engineering are conducting enablement activities in line with business process
• Driving improvement in how the business deals with in flight change, manufacturing process and tooling requirements
• Responsible for supporting the head of manufacturing engineering submarines and providing an assurance position to the bae systems manufacturing director
• Influencing internal and external stakeholders 

Your skills and experiences: 

• Degree qualified in STEM or equivalent (ideally in manufacturing or sub discipline)
• Highly capably at influencing senior stakeholders
• Understanding of manufacturing enablement including modern techniques and processes
• Good understanding of manufacturing tooling and the role of manufacturing engineering within this space
• Demonstrable experience on complex large scale industrial or defence build programmes
• Demonstrable experience in a senior governance role with an understanding of auditing

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 team: 

As a part of the Manufacturing team, you will be working with Manufacturing Engineering Managers to allow to progress manufacturing engineering function. You will be involved in all three major programmes, a world’s class product for the royal navy. You will be presented with career opportunities within the function and into the wider business. 

This is a great opportunity to get familiar with the operations of BAE Systems Submarines whilst being trusted to use your skills and experience to influence decisions.

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: 20^th January 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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