Overview

Job title: Senior Engineer – Electrical Engineering (Power)

Location: Barrow-In-Furness (Hybrid – 2 days onsite) depending on business needs.

Salary: Up to £46,000 (Commensurate with skills and experience)

What you’ll be doing

• Writing technical specifications and supporting in the down selection and placing of contracts
• Liaising and collaborating with external suppliers and the customer
• Following design lifecycle management to ensure the delivery of equipment to specification
• Providing technical consultation to multi-discipline teams, suppliers and stakeholders on matters related to the power system
• Preparing technical reports, calculations, and presentations to communicate results and recommendations effectively

Your skills and experiences

• Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical engineering or related field
• Proven experience as a power systems engineer
• Experience with high power, medium voltage power electronics, machines, and drives
• Knowledge of power systems, including conversion, distributions, and generation
• Working within a relevant engineering role to industry codes and standards
• Complex design programmes experience
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills

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 Electrical Equipment team

As part of the Electrical Equipment Team, you will be involved in the specification and tendering of equipment within the Electrical Power System and subsequently will manage the technical side of the contract through staged design reviews through to design completion, working closely with external suppliers to meet the standards of engineering excellence required to provide the Royal Navy with the next generation submarines. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines 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 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.

Closing Date

31st August 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.

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Engineering and Information Technology

Industries

• Technology, Information and Internet