Job Vacancy Principal Weight Engineer

Job Title: Principal Weight Engineer

Location: Barrow-in-Furness, Brough, Weymouth, Filton, Portsmouth, Frimley, Manchester - 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:

• Lead the collation of mass properties data to deliver weight and centroid control on multi billion pound submarine programmes
• Responsible for aggregating weight and centroid reports and presenting the status to Chief Naval Architect
• Define and manage the mass budgets for submarine programmes and its breakdown to system level
• Create and maintain a comprehensive database of parts mass properties
• Develop weight saving strategies and maintain the list of the risk and opportunities for the submarine
• Interrogate CAD models to determine estimates for mass properties with associated uncertainties
• Perform conceptual parametric estimations for mass distributions and moments of inertia whilst driving the development of methods and tools for mass properties estimation

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Qualified in STEM subject or extensive experience
• Chartered Engineer or ability to achieve Chartered status within a 12 month time frame
• Ability to work independently and provide technical leadership as part of the team
• IT literate in Microsoft packages, experienced knowledge in Excel

Desirable:

• Experience working with large, complex Electrical or Mechanical systems
• Data analysis experience including interpretation, visualisation, manipulation and presentation
• Experience of using CAD packages and programmes

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 Weight Engineering team:

The Weight Engineering Team are a multi-disciplinary Team of Engineers and Data Scientists who estimate, collate and present mass properties data for a number of multi billion pound submarine programmes. The Weight Engineering team are a specialist team who play a critical role in the whole boat design and assuring whole boat safety.

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 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.