Product Development Engineer in Pontypool

Location: Glascoed - Minimum of 4 days per week onsite

We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: Up to £45,177 (dependent on skills and experience)

Who we are:

Join BAE Systems and you'll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you'll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You'll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow, shaping a safer future, for all of us.

Role Description:

You will support product design and systems engineering across new and legacy products, applying tools such as MBSE, Pugh matrices, FTA and DFMEA to design, evaluate and improve solutions. You will manage product and process design, development, testing, manufacturing and evaluation activities while ensuring safety remains the top priority. The role includes applying engineering governance throughout the lifecycle, supporting design reviews from concept to disposal, maintaining engineering bills of materials, and collaborating with cross functional stakeholders to deliver successful projects and proposals. You will also ensure effective configuration control, documentation quality and continuous improvement across engineering activities and team practices consistently.

Core Duties:

• Support product design and systems engineering activities across new and legacy products
• Apply systems engineering tools (e.g. MBSE, Pugh matrices, FTA, DFMEA) to drive robust design and evaluation
• Plan, conduct and manage product and process design, development, testing and manufacturing activities
• Ensure safety is embedded and prioritised across all engineering practices and team outputs
• Implement and maintain engineering governance throughout the full product lifecycle
• Support and contribute to design reviews from concept through to disposal
• Manage configuration control and maintain Engineering Bills of Materials (EBOM)
• Engage, influence and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to support project and proposal delivery

Essential Skills:

• You'll have an academic qualification in Engineering or another related STEM subject, as well as specific (either academic or professional) qualifications, appropriate to your level
• Proven Engineering skills: particularly the ability to identify issues, conduct technical analysis of causes and identify solutions. Experience of product design analysis techniques (Pugh, DFMEA, FTA)
• A working knowledge of Systems Engineering, MBSE and Engineering design
• You'll have a proven record of supporting engineering teams and projects
• You may also hold or be working towards recognition as an Incorporated or Chartered Engineer through an appropriate recognised professional institution; this is considered advantageous

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 Warhead Development team:

You will be integrated within the Warhead Development team to ensure project delivery. Working alongside the Portfolio Manager and reporting to the Engineering Manager, you will be responsible for ensuring that programme derivation and execution include appropriate engineering development activity to achieve a robust solution. The activities will be planned with robust estimates for completion with sound risk mitigation built in. The position will be primarily based at the BAE Systems Land UK site in Glascoed, Monmouthshire on a four-day working pattern within a hybrid-working environment where suitable, with travel to other customer, manufacturing and test and evaluation sites also being necessary.

Why BAE Systems?

Here you'll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work, this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best. You'll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what's most important to you and your family, support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.

A place where everyone can thrive:

We're committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.

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: 28th July 2026

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.