Structures Engineer

Job Description

Job Title: Structures Engineer

Location: Prestwick – Hybrid 3 days minimum on site

We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this role

Salary: £48,098

Who we are:

Join BAE Systems and you’ll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you’ll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You’ll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow, shaping a safer future, for all of us.

From the depths of the ocean, to the far reaches of space, there’s no limit to where a career at BAE Systems could take you.

What you’ll be doing :

In this role, you will support the delivery of Air projects by developing and sustaining structural engineering capability through team growth and recruitment. You will work across multiple programmes within the Air Sector, which designs, builds, and supports combat aircraft, trainers, and unmanned systems. Structural Engineering plays a key role across the full lifecycle, ensuring airframe integrity and advancing capabilities in people, processes, and technology.

Core duties:

• Apply fatigue, durability and crack growth expertise across projects
• Support airframe design and ongoing structural integrity
• Standardise analysis and drive common toolsets
• Work with design engineers to ensure integrity in design and service

Essential Skills:

• Degree in STEM or equivalent aerospace experience
• Experience in structural engineering, including sizing and fatigue/damage tolerance analysis
• Knowledge of structural analysis, fatigue, and fracture mechanics methods
• Experience with tools such as Nastran, Patran, Hypermesh, Abaqus
• Familiarity with optimisation, dynamics, vibration, and acoustics analysis

The Structures Engineering Team:

We support one of the biggest defence programmes in the World and have responsibility for improving the fatigue and fracture capability right across the Air Sector. BAE Systems designs, develops and supports a wide range of airborne platforms, operating across the World in some of the most demanding conditions imaginable. The Structures Engineer role will allow you to capture and consolidate hard-won knowledge from our fleets, and apply that to our current and emerging products to ensure that BAE Systems remains at the forefront of Structural innovation.

Why BAE Systems?

Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work, this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best. You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family, support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.

A place where everyone can thrive:

We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, who are BAE Systems employees and have been in their current role for 12 months or longer.

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: 29th June 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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