Principal Engineer – Site Engineering Authority in London

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 (Dependent on skills and experience)

What you’ll be doing:

• Acting as Engineering Authority for your prescribed area, covering all buildings and assets, providing independent engineering governance and assurance across all assets within your area.
• Providing technical and specialist engineering advice & support to the maintenance, operations & project teams.
• Producing/approving engineering functional requirements, accept design solutions, maintain engineering oversight, validate engineering integrity.
• Protecting and maintaining engineering baseline for all accepted assets and infrastructure within your prescribed area, including configuration management and change control.
• Development, management and control of planned maintenance schedules & approval of any maintenance concessions.
• Providing Engineering governance and assurance for all projects within your area throughout the full lifecycle of the project, from requirements capture to handover, including a role as Design Review Chairperson.
• Providing an asset risk management capability and support a risk-based investment prioritisation and decision-making process for all asset related investments.
• Asset Management delivery – development and maintenance of asset management plans for key assets to ensure they can deliver the current and future boat programme requirements.
• Engineering advice and support to equipment breakdowns and supporting / leading recovery activities.

Essential:

• Degree level qualified (in a relevant Engineering or Science discipline) or sufficient relevant experience to become a Chartered Engineer.
• Have experience with Asset Management and Facilities Management.

Desirable:

• Experience with Management of Nuclear classified systems including but not limited to Design, Operation and/or Modifications.
• Experience in related industry such as; Nuclear, Oil and Gas etc.

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 Site Engineering Team:

An exciting opportunity to join us as a Principal Engineer, where you will be providing engineering assurance across the site within projects, process and operations. Site & Facilities Engineering are a dedicated Engineering team that provides technical and engineering oversight, advice and leadership to site wide fixed asset to support the boat build programme by ensuring the facilities, infrastructure and assets are available and performing when required. The team act as a verification function, ensuring that work is compliant with statutory requirements, site license conditions and business processes. The team are supported by specialist engineering teams and other specialists throughout the business to support decision making.

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: 5th December 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.

Seniority Level: Mid-Senior level

Employment Type: Full-time

Job Function: Engineering and Information Technology

Industries: Defense and Space Manufacturing