Senior Engineer – Warship Engineering

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Engineer – Warship Engineering

Location: Scotstoun, Glasgow; Filton, Bristol; or Broad Oak, Portsmouth. 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 £50,000 depending on qualifications and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Resolving a range of engineering issues and problems, compiling technical reports, drawings and accompanying presentations as required by the role

• Managing customer requirements throughout the product lifecycle, ensuring needs are understood and translated into clear, actionable design objectives

• Engaging in the peer review of outputs to ensure accuracy and completeness, adhering to established guidelines for checking and verification

• Collaborating with the wider engineering team to support the production, maintenance and status reporting of bid documentation and processes.

• Developing designs of flight decks, hangars, magazines and supporting compartments from an “initial concept” level of maturity to greater levels of maturity as deemed appropriate

• Integrating vulnerability reducing design features, including shock mitigation and ballistic/blast protection into future concept ship design

Your skills and experiences:

• Demonstrated knowledge in warship engineering including some, not necessarily all, of the following sub-disciplines (operability, Adaptability, Susceptibility, Vulnerability, Recoverability, or Aviation)

• Familiarity with Defence Standard 00-133 and its application to naval ship design and integration processes

• Understanding of compartment design and sizing

• Proven experience in technical report writing, including sourcing, reading, and interpreting complex engineering standards and documentation

• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to convey technical concepts to non-engineering audiences

Engineers at all levels should possess an academic qualification in Engineering or other related STEM subjects as well as specific (either academic or professional) qualifications and become recognised as Incorporated or Chartered Engineers through an appropriate recognised professional institution.

Engineers are encouraged, and will be supported, to achieve the relevant accreditation.

Preference will be given to candidates who are already professionally registered.

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 Naval Ships Future Business and Technology Engineering team:

As a Senior Warship Engineer you will be responsible for a defined range of activities, namely generating engineering outputs for concept ship designs, doing so in line with all relevant processes and quality requirements, whilst also supplying advice and support to designers, operations and other functions and ensuring defined objectives are achieved whilst continually maintaining quality and service requirements.

The BAE Systems Naval Ships Future Business & Technology (FB&T) Engineering team is responsible for developing concept phase naval ship designs and engineering delivery solutions to compete for future Royal Navy and overseas naval ship design and build opportunities. You would be reporting to the Principal Engineer, and we will support your continuous professional development through clear paths for professional growth and development across exciting projects.

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: 14th August 2025 – Interviews for this position will take place week commencing 1st September.

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