Principal Engineer – Electrical Systems

Job Description

Job Title: Principal Engineer – Electrical Systems

Salary: up to £65500 depending on skills and experience

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

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead, mentor, and motivate a small team to achieve high performance.
• Participate fully in developing, maintaining, and modifying Electrical Systems
• Act as main point of contact with customers and/or suppliers in assigned areas on engineering matters, to resolve relatively complex problems and issues and to maintain awareness in both parties of priorities and objectives.
• Prepare specifications, develop designs in line with specifications and all quality and technical standards, and carry out design appraisals in assigned areas to ensure all standards are maintained.
• Make engineering decisions within own sphere of responsibility and delegated authority.

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Experience in managing/designing electrical disciplines such as Low Voltage (LV) distribution, QPS, LV protection Systems, Earthing systems, Converted supplies, Portable apparatus and domestic supplies.
• Knowledge and awareness of Warship design
• Possesses team, Customer and Suppler management skills

Applicants should ideally be Degree qualified or have equivalent experience, likely to be in a technology, engineering, science or IT related discipline.

Applicants should be a Chartered Engineer or hold another equivalent professional registration with a relevant institution.

Desirable:

• Electrical Systems design working experience within Warship 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 Hunter Class Electrical Team:

The Electrical team within Hunter Class Frigate UK is responsible for delivering Electrical systems design to meet Warship design requirement. The team provides delivery support to wider Electrical team and Build team present in Australia and engages with suppliers based in Europe.

As the Principal Electrical Engineer you will be leading a small team in UK, delivering systems to HWSR by going through project milestone gates. You will collaborate with key stakeholders such as discipline leads, governance team, customer, and supplier to ensure mature design is attained per schedule.

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:10th March 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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