Engineering Manager – Production Engineering Department

Job title: Engineering Manager -Production Engineering Department

Location: Barrow-In-Furness. Onsite

Salary: £56,000 – £61,967 (Commensurate with skills and experience)

What you’ll be doing:

• Leading and managing engineering staff or business partnerships / sub-contracts

• 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, management and review activities to ensure Products are integrated, safe, and 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

• Ensure each team member is assessed, developed, deployed and skilled to maximise their personal contribution and to meet the requirements of contracts, schedules and specifications

• Identify resource requirements through the lifecycle of the project and manage engineering resource within agreed limits

• Review the processes and procedures within the span of control to reduce waste, improve efficiency and establish a dynamic and flexible best in class capability

• Interface and influence internal and external (customer and other stakeholders) such that product offerings meet requirements and specifications

• Sign off for design, legal and technical requirements for a project or service

Your skills and experiences:

• Degree qualified in a STEM subject and Chartered or moving towards Chartered status

• Very experienced professional, ensures essential procedures are followed based on knowledge of own discipline

• Subject Matter Expert in an engineering discipline. Requires technical breadth & depth, is an engineering discipline expert on projects, programmes and contracts

• Assumes a good understanding of business and customer requirements

• 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

• Evidence of technical leadership including checking and release of design solutions, stakeholder management and resolving complex problems

• Experience of design of Jigs, lifting and handling equipment, LOLER, transportation

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 Production Engineering Department:

The Production Engineering Department is responsible for the design of Steel Structures and associated lifting, handling and transportation in support of the Submarine build.

As Engineering Manager – Production engineering, you will be leading a single engineering team of moderate size. Typical team size of 12-15 staff within a single technical discipline. You will also 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 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: 22nd September 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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