Senior Electronics Engineer (Submarine Support)

Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

12/3/2024

Job Title: Senior Electronic Engineer (Submarine Support)

Location: Portsmouth – Broad Oak. 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 £55,000 depending on experience

What You’ll Be Doing

• Provide support to Electrical/Electronic Systems and equipment within the scope of the Submarine Support Motion Control Team
• Develop solutions to a range of Electrical/Electronic design problems or situations (E.g. Obsolescence management, manufacturing, and test support)
• Work as part of a wider project team under limited technical supervision
• Understand and apply a range of design processes, tools, systems, and techniques
• Communicate with internal/ external stakeholders, and with other functions
• Perform self-verification of own tasks to ensure completeness and quality, and arrange checking by appropriate authority
• Answer and provide support to technical queries from internal/ external stakeholders where required
• Adherence to Engineering Lifecycle and contributing to progress, peer, and design reviews
• Support and lead on continuous improvement activities
• Review, amend, and draft technical documentation (E.g. Reports, Test Procedures)
• Interfacing with related disciplines including Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Support, Safety, Product Data Management, and Manufacturing
  
  

Essential

Your skills and experiences:

• A degree in Electronic Engineering or strongly related subject, or equivalent demonstrable experience
• Experience of Analogue and Digital design, including component selection, evaluation, and preparing technical documentation
• Experience of design proving, integration, and defect resolution
• Experience of gathering evidence to support acceptance, fitness for purpose, legislative requirements, and safety
  
  

Desirable

• Experience in Analogue and Digital design for legacy (Circa. 1980s/90s) complex marine and or military high reliability control systems and equipment
• Previous experience of operating in a relevant industry or high safety integrity environment
  
  

Benefits

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Engineering Team

As a Senior Electrical Engineer, you will be responsible for electrical designs relating to Underwater Weapons. The role will provide you with the opportunity to join various complex Underwater Weapon development projects. You will see the full lifecycle and contribute through all phases.

As the world has evolved, so has the way we work. Our working approach, will enable you to have flexibility with your working hours, depending on your role and location. This could include accruing hours as well as flexibility around start and finish times, ensuring you can balance life at work, on site and life at home.

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 that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.

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 your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for 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: 6th January 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.