Senior Engineer -Nuclear Assurance in Barrow in Furness

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

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Identifying and conducting verification and compliance activities on behalf of the Owner of Authorisation Conditions 20 and 27, ensuring adherence to extant compliance arrangements is sufficiently monitored.
• Authorship and upkeep of the Compliance Matrix Workbooks and Compliance Verification Plan, and reporting to the Compliance Dashboard.
• Supporting the regulatory interface in the facilitation of planned internal and external inspection plans, including working closely with NSR&I Advisors.
• Working closely with Quality Assurance, the Engineering Function, Test and Commissioning, and other appropriate business areas in delivering compliance verification activities as required.

Your Skills And Experiences:

• Experience in Nuclear Regulation or Nuclear Compliance.
• Previous experience working in heavily regulated industries i.e. Oil/Gas.
• Experience within Quality Assurance, Engineering & Manufacturing Engineering or Product Assurance.

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 Platform Nuclear Engineering Department (PNED) Team:

The PNED Department consists of multi-disciplinary roles charged with delivering nuclear engineering capability and support across the multiple reactor plant programmes. Whilst this role is focussed on Authorisation Condition compliance activities, should the candidate wish to develop their knowledge and skills in nuclear engineering and/or project activities, opportunities will be available to be involved in a range of the Engineering Lifecycle for a Naval Reactor Plant; from Engineering Design Reviews through to build, test and commissioning activities, including but not limited to, resolution of emergent issues providing support to the wider PNED teams. 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: 3rd 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.