Senior Designer – NX

Job Description

Job title: Senior Designer – NX

Location: Barrow-in-Furness – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements. The hybrid working option for this role, is a minimum of 2 days on site per week (depending on business needs)

Salary: Up to £41,440 (Commensurate with skills and experience)

What you’ll be doing:

• Design and develop solutions to a range of common design situations/problems using NX
• Understand and apply a range of fundamental design processes, tools, systems and techniques.
• Develop and produce ways of working within NX to provide design intent
• Work as a member of a multi-functional team created to accomplish tasks (e.g. Capgemini, Siemens, IBM and SSNA)
• Begin to schedule own work to meet target time scales and budget demand using tools and techniques with guidance from their supervisor.
• Continually seek ways to improve, processes, toolsets, systems, techniques and the generic workplace.
• Take an active role in high risk and high complexity tasks with low-risk involvement, supported by the project leader or equivalent.

Your skills and experiences:

• Demonstrated Experience of NX within an Electrical / Mechanical Engineering environment
• Good understanding of design techniques, processes and approaches in a range of industrial situations
• Good knowledge in the use of design tools and techniques, methods, company design standards and systems
• Works with a degree of technical autonomy and demonstrates a commitment to professional design engineering principles and values
• Ability to develop and assist others (i.e. Apprentices)
• HNC /HND qualification is desirable

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 NXGEN Digital Capability Team:

An exciting and rewarding opportunity has arisen within Submarine NXGEN Digital Capability Team for 4 Senior Designers – NX. These new roles are based out of Barrow with a hybrid working option of a minimum of 2 days on site per week (depending on business needs)

Joining this team will provide you with the exciting opportunity to make the future more secure for everyone. No two days will be the same as you work with supporting the capabilities being delivered in the various current & future drops of NX, whilst attending the workshops and demos to develop our understanding of how we can use the Siemens software for BAE needs. You will also Identify any development needs within the software and develop the way of working, write the test scripts and assist the process and training team if they have any questions so they can develop their documents.

You can also enjoy a variety of future career progression choices across our numerous business areas, including Principal Designer or leadership roles within the team. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria. These roles also offer paid overtime, subject to business requirements.

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 September 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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