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BAE Systems • Barrow-in-Furness, United Kingdom

Senior Engineer – Site Engineering Authority

Salary:  Up to £49,000 per annum
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Job Description

Job Title: Senior Engineer – Site Engineering Authority

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: Up to £49,000 depending on experience

What you’ll be doing:

  • Acting as Engineering Authority for your prescribed area, covering all buildings and fixed assets. Provide independent engineering governance and assurance across those assets
  • Offering technical and specialist engineering advice & support to maintenance, operations, and project teams
  • Producing engineering functional requirements and accepting design solutions. Maintaining engineering oversight and validating engineering integrity
  • Protecting/maintaining the engineering baseline for all accepted assets and infrastructure in your prescribed area, including configuration management and asset change control
  • Developing, managing, and controlling planned maintenance schedules & approving any maintenance concessions
  • Delivering through life asset management plans/health reports for key assets to ensure asset base can deliver current and future submarine/boat programme requirements
  • Providing engineering advice/support during equipment breakdowns and assisting recovery activities

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

  • Degree level qualification in a relevant Engineering/Science discipline or sufficient relevant experience
  • Experience with Asset Management and Facilities Management

Desirable:

  • Prior experience with nuclear classified systems (design, operation, modifications etc.)
  • Industry experience from nuclear, oil and gas or similar heavily regulated sectors
  • Ability to become a Chartered Engineer
  • Experience of working at heights, including working with cranes/structures/steam generation plants/water, gas & air plants/Local Exhaust Ventilation Systems (LEV) & general machinery would be beneficial

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 Site, Infrastructure & Facilities Team

The Site, Infrastructure & Facilities team is a critical function within BAE Systems Submarines, responsible for ensuring that the physical estate, supporting infrastructure, and facilities are safe, compliant, operational, efficient, and capable of supporting current and future submarine programmes. This includes maintaining and modernising the site, managing services & utilities, supporting projects, and ensuring regulatory and safety standards are met. We offer relocation support packages across all submarine’s 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: 17th February 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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Company benefits

Adoption leave
Annual bonus
Buy or sell annual leave
Electric Car Salary Sacrifice
Employee discounts
Enhanced maternity leave – Up to 52 weeks with the option of returning to work on reduced hours for the first 13 weeks
Enhanced paternity leave – 4 weeks for eligible employees
Enhanced pension match/contribution
Family health insurance
Gym membership – Discounts available
Health insurance
In house training
LinkedIn learning license
Lunch and learns
Mental health first aiders
Neo-natal leave
Open to compressed hours
Open to job sharing
Open to part time work for some roles
Open to part-time employees
Relocation packages
Salary sacrifice
Share options
Shared parental leave
Reservist leave – 15 days
Referral bonus
Cycle to work scheme
Secure on-site parking
Modern office
Collaboration spaces
Private booths
Fertility treatment leave
Pregnancy loss leave

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