Principal Engineer – EPAD Product Verification

Job Description

Job Title: Principal Engineer – EPAD Product Verification

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

Salary: from £45,628 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Substantiating that the product is safe at various stages during procurement and build by execution of your Surveillance Plan and generation of objective evidence
• Ensuring build and design intent conformity through verification activities, at system and whole boat level
• Assisting in the conduct of design and safety classification configuration checks, as appropriate
• Supporting activities requiring input and support as part of configuration checks
• Analysis of root causes of failures

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Degree qualified in Engineering (or working towards), or HNC with suitable experience
• Demonstrable and applied experience in Product Verification or Quality Assurance activities and build assurance
• Technical experience in Safety Assessments of design, evidence capture and risk analysis

Desirable:

• Experience conducting technical investigations or audits
• Engineering Chartership or working towards

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 Product Verification team:

As a Principal Engineer – Product Verification, you will primarily be responsible for ensuring product design intent and safety requirements are met across the submarine. You will also act as a subject matter expert (SME) for whole boat product verification, which will entail conducting assurance activities.

This unique role will provide you with the opportunity to be involved with one of the UK’s most complex, cutting-edge projects, with the chance to work across the whole boat. You will also gain exposure to an extensive range of stakeholder groups and industrial partners. 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 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: 10th September 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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