Maritime Electrical Engineer in Northam

Location: Portsmouth Naval Base. 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 £42,000 depending on skills and experience.

What you’ll be doing:

• Applies knowledge, skill & experience in company products, services, approaches, techniques and governance. Applies experience and works across a range of standard products and services, resolves common engineering problems. Working under technical supervision.
• Obtain confirmation beyond reasonable doubt by review, surveillance and audit that those assumptions, underpinning engineering data, analysis methodologies, and interpretation of results have been validated.
• Define the qualification obligations for the assurance hold points during build, test and commissioning.
• Working under technical supervision, undertake functional design and/or provide advice and qualification for the scope of responsibility and provide evidence for acceptance, fitness for purpose, regulatory & legislative requirements, and safety.
• Liaise with both internal and external stakeholders as required ensuring that their requirements are adequately supported and that their needs are fully considered and incorporated where appropriate and agreed.
• Contribute to identification and closure of issues emerging from all product lifecycle stages and to manage the resulting change embodiment activities.
• Provide realistic programme status, identify problem areas and implement agreed recovery plans.
• Provide support for assurance that the design is adequate i.e. it is robust and provide supporting documentation for the safety case.

Your skills and experiences:

• Relevant experience within an Electrical Engineering discipline.
• Systems knowledge of power and distribution & controls systems experience.
• Understands engineering approaches, processes and procedures.
• HNC/HND or an electrical apprenticeship is preferred.

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 Warship Technical Authority Power and Propulsion team:

The primary responsibility of this role is to ensure the design intent and safety of the QEC platform and to collate the assurance evidence of this for the corresponding Warship Assurance Team while working as directed by the QEC principal Electrical Engineer – Power and Propulsion, under the definitive engineering authority of the QEC WTA (Warship Technical Authority) Class Lead Engineer.

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: 23rd February 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.