Overview

Job Title: Senior Engineer – Electrical Engineering (Control & Instrumentation)
Location: Barrow-in-Furness, Filton or Broad Oak.
We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about options for this role. Salary: Circa £45,000, dependant on experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide, review and adhere to specifications in accordance with stakeholder requirements.
• Contribute to daily team meetings with progress updates, insights into technical challenges and solutions.
• Proactively build strong working relationships with stakeholders and communicate across teams and with the customer to ensure sound design and build quality.
• Assess, evaluate and challenge the C&I system design with respect to safety and technical requirements.
• Lead and take ownership of specific engineering tasks to progress the C&I design.
• Understand and develop safety in the design, specifications and parts for instrumentation and other related electrical items.
• Provide drawings such as block diagrams and electrical schematics and assist with detailed design diagrams (P&ID).
• Resolve engineering issues and problems and compile/present technical reports and presentations to various stakeholders.

Your skills and experiences

• Essential: BEng (Hons) / MEng or equivalent; Incorporated Engineer or ability to achieve Incorporated Engineer Status.
• Technical report writing and presentation skills.
• Demonstrable experience of engineering lifecycle.
• Knowledge of one of the following areas: instrumentation and control theory including PID control, electrical circuit design, EMC precautions and power supply characteristics, Safety Integrity Levels and BS EN 61508 or 61511, PLC programming to IEC 61131-3 standard or Fieldbus technology (Profibus/Profinet).
• Desirable: Knowledge and experience of defence standards and domain.

Benefits

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems offers employee share plans and a wide 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 SSNA Ocean Interface Team

You will be part of the Ocean Interfaces team within SSNA, contributing to the development of control and instrumentation systems for deployable assets related to the future attack submarine. The team tackles global challenges and delivers design solutions by collaborating with customers and suppliers.

Programme context

As the AUKUS Submarine programme progresses, SSNA is evolving into a global initiative. With designs advancing and orders for long-lead items being placed, this is a pivotal time to make an impact. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to 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 integrity and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential.

Inclusion and accessibility

We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to ensure our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about reasonable adjustments. Some roles may be subject to security and export control restrictions.

These restrictions mean that factors such as previous salary, identity, or place of birth can restrict the roles you are eligible to perform. All applicants must achieve at least the Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Some roles require higher levels of Security Vetting, typically with 5 to 10 years of continuous UK residence depending on the vetting level.

Closing Date

Closing Date: 26th September 2025. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications. Please submit your application as early as possible.