Principal Engineer - Safety & Environmental Engineer (Legislation)

Recruiter
BAE Systems
Location
Barrow-In-Furness
Salary
Competitive
Posted
09 Jun 2021
Closes
17 Jun 2021
Contract Type
Permanent
Hours
Full Time
Principal Engineer - Safety & Environmental Engineer (Legislation)
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Principal Engineer - Legislation

Would you like to provide support to the Engineering Delivery Manager to ensure that the Legal conformity of products is managed and maintained? We currently have a vacancy for a Principal Engineer - Legislation at our site in Barrow.

As a Principal Safety Engineer, you will be supporting Astute & Dreadnought, providing legal guidance to engineers.

This role will provide you with an opportunity to work on a rapidly growing team and an excellent opportunity to work on whole portfolio of Subs products.

Your main responsibilities as a Principal Engineer - Legislation will involve:

Developing the technical assessment of products in order to provide through life support to Engineering and other business functions in BAE Systems Maritime -Submarines (BAESM-S)
Reviewing and approving product documentation
Supporting the team leader in the provision of product legislation support and guidance to engineering and other functions.
Supporting the team lead the audit of legislative conformity of products
Supporting the development of realistic programme status updates, identify problem areas and implement agreed recovery plans

Key Accountabilities

Product legislation management
Document review
Upkeep of the product legislation database
Technical report writing

Your skills and qualifications as a Principal Engineer - Legislation:

Degree qualified/ NVQ Level 5 or equivalent experience in a STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) related discipline or Law Degree
MS Office proficient - Word, Excel etc.
Practical application & use of legislation (both health & safety and product orientated) in an engineering environment
Experience of managing data integrity and large data sets in data bases such as but not limited to Team Centre, SIMPLIFI, Lexis Nexis and Euro-lex

What we're looking for in you:

You will be a proficient user of MS Office - Word, Excel etc. You will have practical application & use of legislation (both health & safety and product orientated) in an engineering environment.

Experience of managing data integrity and large data sets in data bases such as but not limited to Team Centre, SIMPLIFI, Lexis Nexis and Euro-lex.

Location: Barrow

Salary: Competitive

Benefits: Our employees receive an excellent benefits package which includes a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. We also offer a range of additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and many local and national employee discounts. Some employees may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

BAE Systems

BAE Systems is one of the world's leading global defence, security and aerospace companies. We work at the cutting edge of technology, creating more than 100 new inventions every year for customers in over 100 countries.

Maritime - Submarines

Our Submarines business has been safely delivering world class submarines to the UK Royal Navy for more than a century.

The Astute class will equip the Royal Navy with its largest and most capable generation of attack submarines. We are responsible for the design, build, test and commissioning of these state-of-the-art vessels. In total, seven boats will make up the fleet, each weighing a mighty 7,400 tonnes.

Dreadnought is the successor to the Vanguard class of nuclear deterrent submarines. We will deliver four submarines to the Royal Navy, with the first submarine entering service in the early 2030s. Dreadnought is widely considered to be one of the world's most complex engineering challenges.

We have sites in Barrow-in-Furness, Filton, Frimley, Ash Vale, Broad Oak and Weymouth, and we pride ourselves on employing the best professionals around. Join us and you'll be part of something important; something you can be proud of.

At BAE we want to be the leading employer in defence and security for valuing diversity and inclusion. We care about difference in all forms and want to create an inclusive environment where everyone can be themselves and reach their full potential.

We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently under-represented within our industry, including women, people from ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also want to be a preferred home for veterans and reservists.

For more information on our Diversity & Inclusion work, please click here.

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and/or your place of birth may limit those roles that you can perform for the organisation.

Due to the volume of applications we receive, we sometimes close our vacancies early. It is therefore advisable to apply as early as possible if you would like to be considered for a role with BAE Systems.

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Job Engineering
Primary LocationBarrow-in-Furness

Closing Date 16/Jun/21, 5:59:00 PM