Join Us as a Lead Mechanical Engineer - Product Assurance!
Location: Barrow-in-Furness. We embrace hybrid and flexible working arrangements—talk to your recruiter about the options available for this role!
Salary: Circa £55,000
What You'll Be Doing:
* Deliver high-level engineering assurance across cutting-edge BAE Systems Maritime Submarines products, ensuring integrity across major Submarine Enterprise programmes.
* Plan and prioritize assurance activities using a risk-based approach, optimizing limited resources while adhering to the Submarines Engineering Product Assurance Framework.
* Lead and support key assurance reviews, leveraging 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 judgment 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, providing impartial technical support to the broader Submarine Enterprise and challenging designs from a fresh, safety-focused perspective.
Your Skills and Experiences:
* A degree in Mechanical Engineering is preferred, though strong experience in design and/or commissioning will also be 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.
* Demonstrable knowledge of design reviews, audits, changes management, and resolving complex technical challenges.
* A solid Mechanical Engineering background, with practical experience across design, testing, and commissioning activities.
Benefits:
Alongside a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems offers employee share plans and a wide range of flexible, discounted health, wellbeing, and lifestyle benefits. This includes 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 heart of some of the UK’s most advanced engineering challenges. You’ll 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 investigations, and tracking progress through the Product Assurance team’s Concerns and Best Practice System. You’ll also act as a trusted source of specialist technical advice, directly contributing to the safety and assurance of world-class Submarine technologies. Relocation support is available for all Submarine roles, subject to eligibility criteria.
Why BAE Systems?
This is a place where you can truly make a difference. Join an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity and merit, and empowers you to fulfill your potential. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and strive to make our recruitment processes as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessments, please discuss potential reasonable adjustments with your recruiter.
Please note that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to security and export control restrictions. These restrictions may affect your eligibility based on factors such as nationality, previous nationalities, and place of birth. All applicants must achieve at least the Baseline Personnel Security Standard, with many roles requiring higher levels of National Security Vetting, typically necessitating 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK.
Closing Date:
17th February 2026
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications. If you’re interested, we encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible!
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