Job Title:
Senior Manufacturing Engineer – Dimensional
Management
Location:
Barrow-in-Furness. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please
speak
to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.
Salary:
£42,215+ depending on skills and experience
What you’ll be doing :
Work closely with Design Engineering to identify and
manage
key quality characteristics in design outputs
Assess the Producibility of design outputs and provide recommendations based on manufacturing capability
Assess tolerances, datums and GD&T to support the design and development of the product
Work with the build strategy team to identify inspection hold points in the build sequence
Introduce new tools and processes relating to dimensional capability across the business
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
HNC / STEM or equivalent trade experience
Detailed understanding of dimensional measurement systems and metrology
principles
Ability to interpret engineering drawings and/or CAD models
Previous Shipbuilding knowledge is beneficial but not essential
Desirable:
Excellent understanding of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing
Experience working on large-scale bespoke engineering projects
Build Tolerances / Tolerance Stack-up
Experience in Shipbuilding Fabrication or Machining Operations
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 Manufacturing Engineering team:
As a part of the Dimensional
Management
team you will be faced with interesting opportunity’s, with diverse and broad tasking, enabling the team to learn submarine design & build process. You will be involved in influencing and impacting the design and quality teams, identifying key characteristics that need
managing
from design and into build through Quality
Control
Plans to capture inspection hold points that require further
control. Adaptability is key with a desire to absorb build knowledge of submarine inspection requirements. We offer relocation support packages across all submarine’s 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.
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:
7th November 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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