Job Title:
Lead
Mechanical Engineer
Product Assurance
Location:
Barrow-in-Furness. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements
please speak
to your recruiter about the options for this role
Salary:
Circa 55,000
What youll be doing:
Deliver high-level engineering assurance across cutting-edge
BAE Systems Maritime Submarines products, ensuring integrity across major Submarine Enterprise programmes
Plan and prioritise assurance activities using a risk-based approach, optimising limited resources while working to the Submarines Engineering Product Assurance Framework
Lead
and support key assurance reviews, bringing your SQEP expertise
to validate design decisions, technical bids, and engineering evidence
Ensure products are safe, compliant, cost-effective, and fully integrated, with hazards demonstrated ALARP and configurations clearly controlled
Provide independent
oversight to design and technical reviews, offering objective
judgement aligned with mandated engineering frameworks and policies
Collaborate across engineering and wider business teams, influencing outcomes, shaping product quality, and enabling safe, successful delivery
Act as an independent
voice in safety assurance, offering impartial technical support to the broader Submarine Enterprise and challenging
designs from a fresh, safety-focused perspective
Your skills and experiences:
Mechanical Engineer degree preferred, though strong
experience in design and/or commissioning will be equally considered
Hands on
experience with event reporting systems, confidently identifying issues, investigating root causes, and driving effective resolutions
Proven
capability in design proving, taking projects through verification, validation, and successful commissioning
Strong, demonstrable knowledge of design reviews, audits, changes management, and resolving complex
technical challenges
Solid Mechanical Engineering background, with practical experience across design, testing, and commissioning activities
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 Product Assurance team:
As the Lead
Mechanical Engineer
Product Assurance, you will be at the centre of some of the UKs most advanced engineering challenges. Youll shape key elements of the assurance schedule and gain hands-on
insight into evidence from audits, inspections, reviews, tests, and trials. The work is varied and engaging
producing clear technical briefings, supporting issue investigation, and tracking progress through the Product Assurance teams Concerns and Best Practice System. Youll also act as a trusted source of specialist technical advice, directly contributing to the safety and assurance of world class Submarine technologies. We offer relocation support across all Submarine roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria
Why BAE Systems?
This is a place where youll be able to make a real difference. Youll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where youll 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.
Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control
restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can restrict the roles
you are eligible to perform within the organisation. All applicants
must
as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants
must
typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.
Closing Date:
10th December 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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