Senior Materials Engineer – Metallics Governance
Job Title: Senior Metallurgical Engineer
Location: Samlesbury– We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.
Salary: £47683 plus depending on skills and experience
What you’ll be doing:
· Providing materials and process technical support
· Oversight and governance to a broad range of programmes with respect to metallic materials development and manufacturing activities
· Delivering fit for purpose materials and process solutions to manufacturing programmes, supporting facility and material qualification, standardisation and product safety
· Developing materials and process standards and technical and legislative data gathering
· Supervising others work, interviewing, coaching, external engagement and providing on the job training
Your skills and experience:
· Experience in metallic materials manufacturing processes (preferably aerospace), supplier assurance, auditing, special process technical oversight etc, alongside formal education requirements
· Degree or equivalent professional qualification in terms of formal education. Additional relevant knowledge, experience and product expertise can offset these qualification requirements
· Knowledge of welding methodologies, new and advanced metallic manufacturing processes (including additive manufacturing processes), hands on metallics processing experience
· Auditing experience, leading an audit
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 Materials Governance team:
As a part of this team you will work on complex, innovative and world leading projects such as Tempest, Typhoon and F-35 Lightning II. Join us and you will be working alongside other functions to deliver products that will be in service for 40+ years and being continually upgraded to maintain Customers Air Defence capabilities.
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 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: 20th March 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.