Mechanical Engineers (Ref: 44926)
Electrical Engineers (Ref: 37306)
Naval Architects (Ref: 35961)
Welding Engineers (Ref: 42583)
Metallurgy/Materials Scientist (Ref: 42581)
Nuclear Safety Engineers (Ref: 35952)
Product Safety Engineers (Ref: 35955)
Components Engineers (Ref: 35977)
Acoustics & Vibration Engineers (Ref: 42495)
Noise & Vibration Engineers (Ref: 39034)
Shock & Signatures Engineers (Ref: 42499)
Structural Engineers (Ref: 42555)
Operability Engineers (Ref: 38367)
Systems Engineers (Ref: 45337)
Designers (Ref: 41223)
Production Engineers (Ref: 41223)
Supply Chain Managers (Ref: 42109)
Commissioning Engineers (Ref: 44781)
Business Systems Engineers (Ref: 41272)
Power Engineers (Ref: 37306)
Mechanical Engineers (Ref: 44926)
You can expect plenty of responsibility and autonomy, as you design systems, specify equipment and components and deliver design justification and build support for our submarine programme. This will involve executing, evaluating and delivering complex mechanical engineering solutions, working closely alongside internal and external stakeholders and key customers. Naturally, you will require a good degree in Mechanical or Marine Engineering and a sound track record in a similar role.
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Electrical Engineers (Ref: 37306)
Within the submarine design and build programme, ownership and responsibility for the design and development of systems within your area of professional expertise, such as Power Systems, Control and Instrumentation, Communications and EMC. The work will include dealing with internal and external stakeholders and key customers. Other key areas are the delivery of the design justification and provision of build support. Naturally, you will require a good degree in Electrical Engineering and a sound track record in a similar role.
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Naval Architects (Ref: 35961)
You will provide Naval Architecture input to our submarine and surface ship programmes, integrating all functions to deliver Whole Ship performance safely. Your remit will extend from concept to build and in-service support, and you will deliver cost-effective solutions against the most rigorous timescales. It is therefore vital that you can hit the ground running, with a good degree in Naval Architecture or a related discipline and suitable practical experience.
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Welding Engineers (Ref: 42583)
Providing a fast and professional specialist advice and support service covering welding technology, you will be crucial to success in Engineering, Design, Manufacturing and QA activities. Having an in depth knowledge of different welding technologies and their effects on parent material properties, with an excellent degree in an appropriate discipline plus a proven track record in similar roles, you are fully capable of technically justifying welds against our safety conscious culture to withstand highly demanding applications.
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Metallurgy/Materials Scientist (Ref: 42581)
You will provide technical advice on the practical application of both metallic and non-metallic materials technology in support of Design and Manufacturing. A comprehensive understanding of materials selection is vital, and you should be degree qualified in a materials-related discipline and well versed in environmental impacts. At the same time, you should possess relevant experience.
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Nuclear Safety Engineers (Ref: 35952)
You will build on our enviable reputation for timely, thorough and cost-effective management of nuclear licensing and safety case preparation. Helping us meet new naval and civil nuclear programme challenges, you can focus on manufacturing and construction, regulation and licensing, design substantiation or control within the only UK organisation designing, building and commissioning nuclear reactors. You will possess a good engineering degree and relevant experience.
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Product Safety Engineers (Ref: 35955)
Your challenge will be demanding in assuring that our products and supporting documentation demonstrate that any associated risk of harm is as low as reasonably practicable and fit for purpose for the entire product lifecycle. To be successful in this challenge you will require an extremely analytical approach backed by comprehensive knowledge of complex safety cases, associated toolsets and their application in a defence environment. Needless to say, you will possess a good engineering degree and relevant experience.
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Components Engineers (Ref: 35977)
Executing, evaluating and delivering complex mechanical engineering equipment designs, you will be central to our submarines programme. Your remit will extend across the design of equipment and components, integration of equipment, design justification and build support, giving you enormous variety and responsibility. You will work closely with internal and external stakeholders and travel regularly to supplier and customer sites, and will need a degree in Mechanical or Marine Engineering plus sound relevant experience.
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Acoustics & Vibration Engineers (Ref: 42495)
The Acoustics Section provides acoustic radiated noise and vibration predictions for all the submarines that we design and build in Barrow. Also, we provide a radiated noise consultancy service to the UK MoD, and other UK and foreign customers. We are looking for graduate mathematicians, physicists or engineers to strengthen our team. Successful applicants will join a team undertaking numerical, computational and analytical analysis, for which knowledge of computer programming (eg MATLAB) is desirable, together with an engineering degree and relevant experience.
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Noise & Vibration Engineers (Ref: 39034)
This Department provides the noise and vibration control service to the ships and submarines in build in Barrow. We also provide a noise and vibration support service to the Royal Navy, other foreign customers and commercial companies. NAVED are looking for experienced engineers with a good engineering degree and relevant experience, that want to work in applied engineering. This role will involve periods of working as part of a trials team at sea around the UK, and there may be opportunities for foreign travel. In addition to the applied engineering role we are also looking for engineers with some experience of software programming in VB code or similar in order to develop our capabilities further.
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Shock & Signatures Engineers (Ref: 42499)
The Shock and Signatures Management section are responsible for the implementation of the strategies, policies and processes necessary to ensure that our submarines are designed, built and supported to achieve the required levels of signature performance and ruggedness. We are seeking engineers with a good engineering degree and relevant experience. Some knowledge of shock and/or signatures would be an advantage. The posts require an ability to make engineering judgements where there are no clear cut solutions to issues, particularly with the built products where re-work is expensive.
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Structural Engineers (Ref: 42555)
You will be an experienced engineer with a degree in Mechanical/Structural Engineering, Naval Architecture or related field. Ideally you should have a track record in the design of ships, submarines or offshore structures. A thorough understanding of the theory and principles of structural design and stress analysis is required. Experience of finite element analysis is an advantage. You will be comfortable taking responsibility for the design intent throughout design and build. Roles are also available for engineers who can offer deep experience in a specialist area such as advanced finite element analysis (e.g. non-linear elasto-plastic methods), fatigue/fracture, safety case assessments or other specialism related to marine structural design.
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Operability Engineers (Ref: 38367)
As an ex-submariner you will be using your past experience to help influence the design of future submarines. This is a golden opportunity to address all the things in new submarine designs that you knew could have been designed better in the submarines you have served in. You will attend submarine system design and layout reviews to ensure systems can be operated under all operating conditions and the layout is optimised for the operator interface. You will also help generate and approve operating documentation in your given area of expertise. We are currently looking for ex-nuclear propulsion watch keepers and strategic weapons systems Senior NCOs or Junior Officers.
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Systems Engineers (Ref: 45337)
Systems Engineering provides two major contributions to the Engineering Design process necessary to develop complex, high integrity products - it takes a structured and systematic approach to optimising the design against the requirements specified, and it serves as a functional organisation providing specialist engineers to deal with the application of specific engineering topics across all of the equipment and systems areas.
We are looking for Systems engineers to deal with Systems Concepts, Super-system Capability, Technology, Requirements Definition and Analysis, Integration and Verification, Validation Transition to Operation, Concurrent Engineering, Integration of Specialisms and Life-cycle Process
A seasoned and skilled systems engineer, you will ideally bring a background in concept, design, production and development of a complex product - and you will certainly be a true innovator and freethinker.
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Designers (Ref: 41223)
Ideally for a Designer you will be HNC qualified.
Within BAE Systems, Designers are divided into three major disciplines of Electrical, Mechanical and Hull each of which has distinct subsets with specific skills.
ELECTRICAL
Electrical Systems
Designers will have the ability to produce and develop within a 2D environment, cabling, schematic and commissioning diagrams together with the associated equipment, cable entry and connection details for basic to complex systems.
Cableways/ Routing
Designers will have the ability to integrate cableways throughout a vessel within a 3D environment whilst considering various constraints and requirements, eg specific compartment/area, environment, shock, EMC and tempest. Designers will also have the ability to integrate degaussing runs and waveguides. Additionally they will have the ability to route cables throughout the vessel whilst considering similar constraints to those identified above.
MECHANICAL
Piping Systems
By understanding the functional requirements of specific systems you will, ideally, have experience in developing system configuration into complex areas of either surface ship or submarine environments. Other demands such as cost effective pipe manufacture, material compatibility, system supports and above all quality aspects are other considerations to be recognised.
HVAC
By understanding the functional requirements of heating, ventilation and air conditioning you will, ideally, have experience in developing system configuration into complex areas of either surface ship or submarine environments. Other demands such as heat load calculations and the effects on other systems, pressure drop calculations, smoke clearance, NBCD, and compartment distribution are other considerations to be recognised.
HULL
Whole Ship Husbandry
The primary aspect of this role is to ensure the special integration of components such as doors, hatches, insulation, deck coverings, ceilings and bulkhead linings, etc.. Originally defined within build specifications these component requirements are to be protected and demonstrated as being compliant during the special development period.
Steelwork
Covering ship/submarine structure and seating, these designers are responsible for the interpretation of guidance information into 3D representation within the overall special model. Structurally you are responsible for the validation of penetrating items such as doors, hatches, penetrations, etc. whilst for seatings you will demonstrate a familiarity of bending moments, section modulus, material stresses, etc.
Hull Components
Designing, integrating, detailing and supporting specific mechanical equipments through to boat trials you will demonstrate knowledge of mechanical design, bending moments, shear strengths and material selection, amongst other design constraints. Typical equipments range from small mechanical linkages through mechanical gearing to external structural hatches and large mechanical assemblies such as watertight doors and hatches.
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Production Engineers (Ref: 41223)
You will have demonstrable experience or be capable of learning the development of engineering arrangements for the lifting and turning of major steelwork items, the shipping of major modules, designing jigs, rigs and tools, developing transport arrangements, blocking arrangements, launch arrangements and other activities to support the build of submarines and surface ships.
Other roles which transgress the normal discipline sets are:
Integration
These designers have responsibility for the overall configuration of a compartment or area of a product. Whilst having some understanding of the core discipline requirements you will understand what makes an area ergonomically viable. Although having a sound grounding in one of the core disciplines you will, ideally, have experience of operational, shock, through life and personnel ergonomic requirements.
Standards
A provider of major standard information for each of the major disciplines.
From one of the disciplines you should, ideally, be able to demonstrate an understanding of naval/marine, British and international standards and their application. The standards within each discipline vary enormously in scope and sound groundings in the mechanical, electrical or hull disciplines should be demonstrable.
Outputs
Each discipline has responsibility for producing a range of documentation which relays technical information to a customer and are called outputs. Following or from integration and modelling activities, outputs are developed by designers to support the manufacture, production fabrication and outfitting of vessels to be built. The quality of this information is particularly important in the cost effective support to the product build.
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Supply Chain Managers (Ref: 42109)
Reviewing the entire supply chain for Submarine Systems, you’ll establish a strategy for the future and develop plans to mitigate any risks you’ve identified. Other key responsibilities will include supporting the delivery of equipment to the programme and quality/requirements objectives and developing relationships with a range of stakeholders to improve customer satisfaction. A graduate (or equivalent), you should have a Production/Operations background and, ideally, CIPS membership. A comprehensive knowledge of build strategy is a must and you should be confident dealing with people at all levels of the organisation.
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Commissioning Engineers (Ref: 44781)
You’ll manage the Commissioning, Operations and Support Services for systems & equipments related to authorised documentation. A background as an electrical/mechanical engineer is essential, together with a track record in commissioning and/or operating in a submarine environment. It’s also important that you can represent the Company on contractors’ sea trials and other outworking requirements, including guarantee periods as applicable. The minimum qualification requirement is HNC in an appropriate engineering discipline.
Opportunities exist in the following test sections: Ship, Propulsion, Weapons, and Reactor.
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Business Systems Engineers (Ref: 41272)
The Business Systems Department is a newly formed section responsible for building and supporting systems and respective data models for Submarine Solutions. The systems – and in particular the data model that lives within them – provide a critical service to the organisation. So whichever of these three teams you join, you’ll have a real opportunity to help drive the business forward.
Systems Team – Activities include the implementation, development and maintenance of COTS and bespoke business systems across all business processes, from product design to financial management. Involved with the full systems development lifecycle, the team also has overall responsibility for Business Systems Architecture and its Governance.
Data Team – Activities include requirements capture, complicated data modelling and database construction and management. We use the latest techniques and standards, ultimately producing integrity within our single Enterprise Data Model.
Integration Team – Responsible for the effective deployment and support of systems, requirements capture & definition, systems analysis, deployment, administration, process and best practice definition and training.
For all these positions, we’re seeking professional systems analysts, developers, and engineers to enhance our capability. Whilst a background in shipbuilding would be preferred, these roles are more about the candidates’ behaviour, experience and structured approach to overcoming complicated challenges.
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Power Engineers (Ref: 37306)
We require an enthusiastic and talented chartered engineer to join us in the role of Principal Electrical Design Engineer. In this pivotal role in our Electrical Design Team, you will contribute, within a challenging engineering environment to the successful delivery of future submarines.
Drawing on your knowledge of MV (6.6kV), LV (<1kV) and DC Generation and Distribution Systems, responsibilities will include:
• Power Systems Modelling and Analysis,
• Equipment Specification,
• System Design,
• Protection Design,
• Safety Justification,
• System testing and results analysis
You will have a proven track record of system design, coupled with knowledge of one or more of the following areas, generators, switchgear, protection and power electronics. Experience of Marine Electrical Systems would be advantageous, but not essential.
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