Electronic Warfare Senior Systems Engineer

Job Description

Job title: Electronic Warfare Senior Systems Engineer

Location: Warton – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements. Please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £47,683+ dependant on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• This role will require for you to work with the supplier to understand programme status and key issues, maintaining telecoms and meetings with a regularity as appropriate to the status of the programme and ensure that suppliers are aware of the National/EF programme requirements
• You will engage with suppliers to establish future equipment requirements and ensure that product obsolescence is managed through the engineering lifecycle
• A requirement will be to support the Final Assembly Line & Flight Development Line to ensure that DASS equipment is available to meet programme requirements
• A key task is to continue to identify ways to help improve ground equipment, training and technical publications used to operate and maintain our equipment on the Final Assembly Line and In-Service
• Maintaining the equipment programme plans, status information and issue slide to keep them topical with the latest information to support the team reviews will be paramount
• You will be supporting the supplier bid process through support to the DASS procurement team

Your skills and experiences:

• Demonstrable experience of software and hardware development
• An understanding and knowledge of the engineering lifecycle
• A degree in a STEM subject or equivalent with relevant experience gained on an aircraft engineering project or related field
• The ability to develop and present a range of complex data to a variety of stakeholders
• The ability to manage tasks across multiple contracts, balancing priorities and workload across a team

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 – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The DASS Equipment Engineering Team:

The Defensive Aids Sub-System (DASS) System consists of the Defensive Aids Computer (DAC), Electronic Surveillance Measures (ESM), Electronic Counter Measures (ECM) and Missile Approach Warner (MAW), providing platform survivability and situational awareness and the Chaff and Flare Counter Measures Dispensing Systems (CMDS).

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: 15th October 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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