Join Our Team as a Lead Mechanical Engineer – Product Assurance!
Location: Barrow-in-Furness. Enjoy the flexibility of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – just ask 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 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 product safety and compliance, demonstrating ALARP for hazards and maintaining clear configuration controls.
* Provide independent oversight to design and technical reviews, offering objective judgment aligned with mandated engineering frameworks and policies.
* Collaborate across teams, influencing outcomes, shaping product quality, and enabling safe, successful delivery.
* Act as an independent voice in safety assurance, providing impartial technical support and challenging designs from a fresh, safety-focused perspective.
Your Skills and Experiences:
* A degree in Mechanical Engineering is preferred, but 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, successfully taking projects through verification, validation, and commissioning.
* Strong knowledge of design reviews, audits, change management, and resolving complex technical challenges.
* A solid Mechanical Engineering background, with practical experience across design, testing, and commissioning activities.
Benefits:
In addition to a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems offers:
* Employee share plans
* An extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing, and lifestyle benefits
* A green car scheme
* Private health plans
* Shopping discounts
* Potential eligibility for an annual incentive
The Product Assurance Team:
As the Lead Mechanical Engineer – Product Assurance, you will tackle 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. Your work will be 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 serve 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 eligible candidates across all Submarine roles.
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 reach your full potential. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and strive to ensure our recruitment processes are 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.
Important Note: Many roles at BAE Systems are subject to security and export control restrictions. Factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can affect your eligibility for certain roles. All applicants must meet 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:
2nd 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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