Principal Mechanical Engineer (Platform Equipment)

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Overview

Job title: Principal Mechanical Engineer (Platform Equipment) – Coventry (Hybrid). We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this role

Salary: Negotiable dependent on experience

Responsibilities

  • Develop design solutions to meet agreed time, cost, and quality targets
  • Define and manage requirements, acceptance criteria, and performance activities to meet contractual obligations
  • Support design, build, integration, installation, and commissioning activities to meet contractual obligations
  • Produce technical documentation, diagrams, specifications, calculations, and design justifications for reviews
  • Ensure compliance with safety, environmental, contractual, and company standards
  • Lead or contribute to design reviews, customer presentations, and supplier acceptance activities
  • Review and manage supplier documentation, ensuring accurate capture and record-keeping
  • Support bids, proposals, project planning, and Certificate of Design activities with clear technical input

Qualifications & Skills

  • Essential:
  • Technical report writing skills
  • Demonstrable experience in the delivery of mechanical systems through the development lifecycle
  • Comprehensive experience of applying technical expertise across the full engineering lifecycle
  • In-depth knowledge and experience specifying mechanical equipment and components (hydraulic systems, winch equipment, heat exchangers, electric motor driven systems, etc)
  • Desirable:
  • BEng (Hons) / MEng or equivalent in a relevant STEM degree
  • CEng or capable of achieving CEng

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 Combat System Team

As a Principal Engineer, you will be working on an innovative new submarine engineering programme, tackling projects never attempted before. You’ll have the opportunity to work across a wide variety of submarine Combat System subsystems, gaining experience with a broad and diverse range of technologies.

We offer relocation support across all Submarine roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

Additional information

Please note that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to security and export control restrictions. Some roles require higher levels of Security Vetting.

Closing Date: 22 September 2025. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications.

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Location:
Warwick, England, United Kingdom
Salary:
£125,000 - £150,000
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
Engineering

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