Lead Mechanical Engineer - Product Assurance

Job Description:

Job Title: Lead Mechanical Engineer - Product Assurance
Location: Barrow-In-Furness (Hybrid)
We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role
Salary: Circa £55,000 (Commensurate with skills and experience)

Who we are:
Join BAE Systems and you'll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you'll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You'll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow, shaping a safer future, for all of us.
From the depths of the ocean, to the far reaches of space, there's no limit to where a career at BAE Systems could take you.

What you will be doing:
In this role, you will deliver engineering assurance across Maritime Submarines products, ensuring product integrity and compliance across major programmes. You will plan and prioritise assurance activities using a risk-based approach, lead assurance reviews, and provide independent oversight of engineering decisions.
You will work closely with engineering and business teams to influence product quality, support safe delivery, and act as an independent voice in safety assurance, ensuring products meet required standards across the full engineering lifecycle.

Core duties:
* Deliver engineering assurance across submarine programmes, ensuring alignment with the Product Assurance Framework and maintaining product integrity
* Plan and prioritise assurance activities using a risk-based approach, focusing on key technical risks
* Lead and support assurance reviews, validating design decisions, technical bids, and engineering evidence
* Provide independent oversight to design and technical reviews, ensuring compliance with engineering standards and policies
* Ensure products are safe, compliant, cost-effective, and fully integrated, with hazards demonstrated ALARP and configurations controlled
* Collaborate across engineering and business teams to influence outcomes, drive quality, and support programme delivery
* Apply mechanical engineering expertise across design, testing, commissioning, and design proving activities, including verification and validation
* Utilise event reporting, root cause analysis, audits, and change management to resolve technical issues and drive continuous improvement

Essential Skills:
* Mechanical engineering knowledge across the full engineering lifecycle (design, testing, commissioning, verification & validation)
* Experience delivering engineering assurance or operating within assurance/governance frameworks
* Strong understanding of risk-based approaches, hazard management (ALARP), and safety assurance
* Experience leading or supporting technical and design reviews, including validation of engineering evidence
* Knowledge of configuration control, change management, and engineering compliance within regulated environments
* Ability to interpret and challenge technical decisions to ensure product safety, quality, and integration

The Product Assurance Team:
The Product Assurance team sits at the centre of complex submarine programme delivery, providing independent oversight and assurance across engineering activities. You will contribute to assurance schedules and gain exposure to audits, inspections, reviews, tests, and trials, while supporting issue investigations and tracking assurance activities. This role offers the opportunity to act as a trusted technical advisor, directly supporting the safety and integrity of advanced submarine systems. Relocation support may be available across submarine roles, subject to eligibility criteria.

Why BAE Systems?
Here you'll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work, this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best. You'll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what's most important to you and your family, support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.

A place where everyone can thrive:
We're committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.
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: 16th August 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.
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