Senior Design Engineer Team Lead

Job Title: Senior Design Engineer Team Lead

Location: Samlesbury / Hybrid. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: 54,793 - 60,326 (Commensurate with skills and experience)

What you'll be doing:

• Leading and managing a small team of experienced and inexperienced Designers for all related tasks
• Working closely with other engineering disciplines and functions, supplier and customer areas, fostering a team-working and collaborative product development environment
• Checking and approving Airframe engineering design data to ensure it meets project requirements, in line with design standards, whilst maintaining quality, cost and schedule adherence
• Identifying project technical risks and opportunities, and where appropriate propose mitigation plans
• Supporting all aspects of personal and professional development for yourself and others in your team
• Evaluating and resolving design queries, and supporting the generation of resulting modifications and changes
• Supporting the definition and resource planning of design workload delivery

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Degree or HNC/HND or equivalent qualification
• Experience of operating in an airframe design role, or equivalent in one or more phases of the product lifecycle
• Proficiency in a CAD system, typically CATIA V5 or equivalent toolset, with experience in a PLM system
• Awareness of product lifecycle requirements and the importance of governance to product integrity

Desirable:

• Experience of working in a multidisciplinary integrated product development environment, influencing adjacent disciplines
• Experience of working with internal/external customers, suppliers and partners
• Experience of managing Design tasks to meet engineering design requirements and programme requirements
• Experience in verifying and checking other engineer's designs

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 Typhoon Airframe Design Team:

An exciting and unique opportunity has arisen to join the BAE Systems Typhoon Airframe Design Team as a Senior Design Engineer Team Lead, working on the ongoing development and build of the Typhoon combat aircraft product, developing your design skills and capabilities whilst working in an agile and collaborative business environment.

As a Senior Design Engineer Team Lead you will have broad design experience with the ability to flex between the different design disciplines of Electrical, Circuits and Mechanical Design, although it is accepted that candidates may have strengths biased towards a particular one.

You will lead a team producing the physical product definition to satisfy a set of multidisciplinary system functional requirements, taking account of safety, cost, manufacturing, in-service support and other considerations. Your engineering capabilities will already be developed across a range of design skills and product lifecycle stages, working predominately in a model-based engineering environment centred on CAD. An understanding of, and implementing of Design Procedures, Standards and Specifications is essential.

The role is based at Samlesbury, but the successful candidate will also be required to travel to customer locations within the UK as well as internationally when required.

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 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