Senior Engineer – AUKUS Lead (Future Talent team)

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Engineer – AUKUS Lead (Future Talent team)

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: £42,215 + dependant on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Work with engineering points of contact to plan work-based experience pathways to support the learning requirements for the Australian embed’s time in the UK
• Ensure that embeds are fully aware of their placements, knowledge transfer requirements and plans for their activities – including supporting them to resolve conflicts / integration issues
• Collaborate with learning and development team members to formulate complete learner journeys for embeds including various training interventions
• Stakeholder management with UK and Australian Engineering, Programme , Security and HR personnel
• Information management / configuration control is a key responsibility of this role
• Support the functional Responsible Person by highlighting key issues and escalation of risks and problem solving requirements

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Knowledge of one or more of the following areas: People Capability / Learning & Development / Training / Engineering Function
• Ability to formulate complete learner journeys, including work-based learning and training requirements
• An ability to navigate and influence complex / conflicting requirements and create solutions to create a ‘Best for Programme’ outcome
• Good information management, including process development and data management
• Excellent stakeholder management across multiple organisations, functions, disciplines and nations (all with established ways of working)

Desirable

• Knowledge of the Engineering function, domains / disciplines and development pathways
• Ability to balance the support of embeds’ personal and professional development needs

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 Engineering Future Talent team:

The Engineering Future Talent team is a dynamic and committed group that directly shapes the future of the function by supporting the wider engineering community in developing skills and capabilities. Working within the AUKUS environment, you will be part of a trailblazing phase of the programme’s development, giving you the opportunity to influence ways of working and help define key outcomes. 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 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: 18th December 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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