Senior Manufacturing Engineering Manager – 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: Competitive

What you’ll be doing:

• Working with the Engineering, Quality, Planning and Operations functions to develop the Dimensional Management Strategy for BAE Systems submarines across the business portfolio.
• Developing an in-depth understanding of the Submarine build strategy, its general characteristics from a Manufacturing and construction process perspective.
• Understanding and developing dimensional management approaches that are appropriate for the different stages of the submarine’s product lifecycle ranging from concept design through to ultimate delivery (Astute, Dreadnought and SSNA).
• Growing the Dimensional Management sub discipline within Manufacturing Engineering, defining processes, policies and ensuring that appropriate training is in place for dimensional management engineers deployed within the submarines programmes.
• Working within the bounds of the extant US/UK knowledge transfer process, to establish and share best practices.
• Thorough extensive knowledge of Geometric, datuming and tolerancing, an understanding of variation management and key characteristic controls.
• Working in collaboration with the Dimensional controls team (Quality), to ensure latest metrology equipment, processes and techniques support the Dimensional management requirements and so that the data output of the metrology system can be readily interpreted, analysed and consumed.

Your skills and experiences:

• Essential: Degree qualified in STEM to master or equivalent industry experience within manufacturing or quality.
• Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerances (GD&T) experience.
• Previous experience in managing a team.

• Desirable: Experience of working on Complex engineering systems.
• Knowledge applied in Shipbuilding.

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.

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.

Closing Date: 2nd April 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.