Senior Manufacturing/Process Engineer

Job Title: Senior Manufacturing/Process Engineer

Location: Washington, Tyne & Wear

Salary: £53,928

What you’ll be doing:

• Holding authority for Manufacturing Engineering in the Production Readiness Review process
• Influencing the design process to ensure Design for Manufacturing (DfM) initiatives
• Promoting conformance to the change management BMS to accurately manage change control using Team Centre and accurately providing authorisation of manufacturing changes
• Establishing effective planning, introduction and optimisation of process changes, following the change management process
• Identifying opportunities to improve process output through reduction in waste and process optimisation
• Ensuring the creation of Process Trilogy documentation for each manufacturing process (PCP, PFMEA and Process Flow)

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Degree in an Engineering/Operational Discipline and/or time served experience in an engineering/manufacturing field preferred
• Success in implementing and sustaining continuous improvement activities
• Line Management and or coaching and development experience

Desirable:

• Qualified in NEBOSH/IOSH and/or Environmental Managing Safety (or working towards)
• Ability to influence through effective negotiation, involvement and engagement with key stakeholders, earning trust from others and embracing teamwork

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 Manufacturing and Engineering team:

Step into a career that puts you at the forefront of cutting-edge manufacturing. As a Senior Manufacturing/Process Engineer, you’ll have the opportunity to work across the site, collaborating with maintenance, quality, operations, and cross-functional teams to drive innovation and efficiency. Your leadership will be instrumental in supporting New Product Introduction (NPI), coordinating essential services, and managing the internal CAD design team. You will help shape the future of advanced manufacturing while enjoying opportunities for progression and development.

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: 23rd June 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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