Manufacturing Engineer- Tool Design

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

Salary: £47,683+ depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Liaising with the design and engineering organisations to provide design for manufacture input and planning engineers to ensure coherent tool design and manufacturing solutions
• Scheming and designing of tools
• Working with different data streams (design data, PTS’s etc.) to ensure a fit for purpose design
• Applying geometric dimensioning and tolerancing and achieving component interchangeability (ICY)
• Ensuring compliance with H&SE requirements and regulations
• Participation in Design reviews to demonstrate compliance to the component design requirement
• Complying with local manufacturing procedures, use of standard parts and manufacturing processes
• Identifying product quality and cost saving opportunities
• Capturing and embodying identified engineering and design change (component and tool)
• Advising on tool assembly, machining and treatments processes

Your skills and experiences:

Essential

• Experience in tool design in one or more of areas of Assembly, Carbon Fibre Composites and Machining processes
• Experience of scheming and designing jigs and tools that range from detail part tools all the way up to Major Unit Assembly Build Jigs
• HNC or higher level or recognised apprenticeship with experience in a tool design role

Desirable:

• Experience of using CATIA V5/ SIEMENS NX software or equivalent
• A knowledge of structural analysis and geometric tolerancing would be 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 Tool Design Team:

You’ll be joining our dynamic Tool Design team, a key part of our wider engineering and manufacturing function. The team supports multiple current and future projects, meaning you’ll have the opportunity to work across a variety of exciting programmes depending on placement. Our engineers are responsible for creating innovative, cost-effective Jig & Tool designs that are safe, efficient, and fit for purpose — ensuring they meet stringent requirements for interchangeability, product integrity, and safety. In this role, you’ll collaborate closely with cross-functional teams including manufacturing, production engineering, quality, and project management. You’ll also engage with key stakeholders across the business to deliver high-quality tooling solutions that support our complex production and assembly processes.

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.

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 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.