Technical Coordinator

Job Title: Technical Coordinator

Location: Barrow-in-Furness, onsite

Salary: competitive

What you’ll be doing:

• Act as the key liaison between the Pipe Welding Team and shop floor staff, ensuring mandatory training, updates, and compliance requirements are clearly communicated and understood
• Coordinate and book training sessions and medicals/referrals for shop floor teams, tracking attendance and completion to maintain KPI and compliance targets
• Cascade business updates, safety information, Risk & COSHH briefings and performance metrics through DSUMs and team briefings to drive awareness and accountability
• Maintain and update compliance trackers, databases, and MOD documentation to ensure accurate reporting and audit readiness, including welder qualification certificates, and team matrix
• Ordering of PPE, equipment/tooling, stationary etc to support Team Leaders.
• Arranging local inductions, access passes
• Support the secure handling and movement of classified documents and hardware in line with security protocols
• Provide administrative coordination for operational teams, including diary management, travel, events, and visit support, ensuring smooth day-to-day engagement across sites

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• MS Office proficiency
• Robust Communication Skills
• Comfortable interacting with Senior Leadership

Desirable:

• Previous trade background knowledge
• Knowledge of pipe welding
• Knowledge of SAP and Success Factors

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 Pipe Welding Team:

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a highly skilled and safety-critical team at the heart of the BAE shipyard operations. The Pipe Welding Team plays a vital role in delivering both nuclear and non-nuclear pipework across Site, Facilities, and Submarine Programmes – work that directly underpins the integrity and performance of world-class vessels. Working closely with Team Leaders and Operational Leaders, this role offers real visibility and influence across a team of around 90 professionals at varying levels and grades. With core links into Quality, SHE, Operations, HR, and Learning & Development, you’ll sit at the centre of coordination and communication, helping ensure standards, compliance, and capability are consistently achieved.

If you’re looking for a role where you can make a tangible impact in a high-profile, safety-focused environment, this is a team you’ll want to be part of. 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 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: 26th February 2026

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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