Consultant Engineer – Human Factors in Kirkby

Location: UK Wide / Hybrid

Salary: Competitive (Commensurate with skills and experience)

What you’ll be doing:

• Provide technical leadership to Human Factors (HF) Engineering Managers, other HF Consultants, and the HF team to assure the quality, proportionality and effectiveness of HF effort relating to BAE Submarine Facilities, Nuclear Site Safety operations and obligations and the Safe Operational Design of our submarines.
• Review key outputs, including formal reports, processes and procedures produced by the HF Team.
• Identify and actively support development opportunities for the team.
• Provide technical leadership and support to improve the HF Team’s capability and performance in the delivery of project and programme-related work.
• Actively support strategic reviews and the continuous improvement of HF Team capability and performance.
• Support, review, develop and deliver HF Technical development (training) workshops and courses to the HF Team and wider BAE business, as necessary.

Your skills and experiences:

Experience: You will be able to demonstrate extensive technical experience in leading safety aspects of HF, such as incident investigations, root cause analysis, facilities requirements setting, nuclear regulations compliance, human reliability, etc. In particular, you will need an understanding of safety case development and be able to demonstrate experience of its application in a nuclear setting. You’ll need to be able to provide evidence of active direct engagement with internal and external major stakeholders, preferably in high hazard or security restricted settings. Experience of engagement with the ONR with respect to HF would be particularly advantageous.

Qualifications: Chartered Member or Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Ergonomics and Human Factors (or capable of achieving this at time of hire).

Personal Attributes: Positive attitude towards team support, professional development and business engagement. Pragmatic, problem-solving mindset. Enjoys finding strategic opportunities to improve resource (personnel) capability and capacity.

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 Human Factors Team: An excellent opportunity has arisen for a Consultant Engineer – Human Factors, working within The Human Factors Team. You will be looking at the Human Factors of Site Safety of the Barrow site and Boat programmes. This is a very exciting time to be joining one of the largest Human Factors teams in the UK. Our team provides safety-oriented support to the day-to-day business of designing, building and operating submarines and to the maintenance of our nuclear site licence. In this role, the Consultant HF Engineer shall be providing technical leadership and support to the maintenance and optimisation of a nuclear licenced site, developing requirements and recommendations and investigating causal factors for unexpected incidents. They will also support the justification of safety cases for both nuclear and non-nuclear tasks which may include conducting human reliability assessments. Should you wish to relocate closer to the nuclear site at Barrow, 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: 4th January 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.

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