Job Title: Engineering Manager – Specialist Structures Build Support
Location: Barrow-in-Furness – on-site
Salary: Competitive
What you’ll be doing:
- Leading and managing engineering staff or business partnerships
- Ensuring developed solutions are clearly defined, integrated, configured, controlled and delivered, including resolution of conflicts and integration issues that occur through development and delivery phases
- Performing appropriate engineering planning, managing and reviewing activities to ensure Products are integrated, safe, fully compliant and delivered within agreed requirements for cost, quality, time and schedule
- Ensuring capability and skills development, performance optimisation and maximisation and efficient use of engineering and functional resources
- Assuring the maturity of the developed solutions is appropriate for the specific requirement and that all technical risks and opportunities are captured
- Ensuring all engineering activities are undertaken in line with the Operational Framework and that compliance with all engineering policies is maintained
Your skills and experiences:
Essential
- Experience of providing agile technical support to a busy build environment, identifying solutions to enable build with the design and engineering of complex steel structures
- Experience of design of Jigs, lifting and handling equipment, LOLER, transportation
- Experience of people management
- Recognised Engineering Degree (or equivalent) in relevant STEM subject
Desirable
- Evidence of technical leadership including checking and release of design solutions
Benefits:
You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.
The Specialist Structures Engineering team:
The Specialist Structures Engineering Department is responsible for the design of Steel Structures and associated lifting, handling and transportation in support of the Submarine build. You will be working with internal and external stakeholders as well as working within engineering function, build and operations. Within this role you will have an opportunity to see the Submarine and further develop your niche skills, contributing to the national endeavour delivering a major milestone, with some great development opportunities for career progression. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines 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, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also 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 working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.
Closing Date: 29th October 2024
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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