Product Development Engineer (Electronics)

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

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 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.

• Support product design and systems engineering activities across new and legacy products.
• Apply systems engineering tools (e.g. 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.
• Manage configuration control and maintain Engineering Bills of Materials (EBOM).
• Engage, influence and collaborate with cross-functional stakeholders to support project and proposal delivery.

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.

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.

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. 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.