Job Title: Principal 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: £50,000+ depending on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Acting as Engineering Authority lead 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 or approving 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 leading 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:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Site, Infrastructure & Facilities Team:

The Site Engineering Authority 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, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also 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. 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 working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Closing Date: 8th October 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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