Product Development Engineer

Job Description

Job Title: Product Development Engineer

Location: Glascoed – Onsite only

Salary: Up to £43,649 (dependent on skills and experience)

What you’ll be doing:

Supporting the product design and systems engineering activities for new and legacy products

Conducting and managing product and process design, development, test, manufacture and evaluation activities. Ensuring that safety remains the highest priority in the working practices of yourself and the team

Conducting and managing trials in a safe and suitable manner, from planning through to trials execution to reporting and presenting conclusions

Application of effective Engineering Governance throughout the product development lifecycle supporting design reviews from concept to disposal

Configuration and maintenance of Engineering Bills of Materials for products

Product design and evaluation / down selection e.g. Pugh Matrices, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Design Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (DFMEA)

Support the generation of costed proposals for external customers

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

Proven record of supporting engineering teams and projects

Strong Engineering skills: particularly the ability to identify issues, conduct technical analysis of causes and identify solutions

Desirable:

Experience of product design analysis techniques (Pugh, DFMEA, FTA)

Experience of process design analysis techniques (PCP, PFMEA)

Knowledge of munitions design and manufacture

Safety Management – IOSH Managing Safety/NEBOSH Certificate

Experience and knowledge of manufacturing in a high hazard environment

A working knowledge of Systems Engineering and Engineering design

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 Artillery, Tank and Mortars (ATM) team:

You will provide engineering support to the ATM team to ensure the delivery of projects within the team. Working with the Portfolio Manager and reporting to the Senior Product Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring that the programmes/projects include appropriate engineering development activity to achieve a robust solution

The activities will be planned with robust estimates for completion with sound risk mitigation built in. The position will be primarily based at the BAE Systems Land UK site in Glascoed, Monmouthshire on a working pattern within a hybrid-working environment, occasional travel to other customer, manufacturing and test and evaluation sites will be necessary

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 13th November 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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