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Job Title: Assistant Chief Engineer – SSNA Combat System

Location: Weymouth, Barrow-in-Furness, Frimley, Filton or 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: Competitive

What you’ll be doing

Ensure that the design of products is safe and meets contractual, legal and regulatory requirements, company standards and environmental requirements

Ensure the quality and fitness for purpose of product designs, with appropriate trade-off between performance, affordability, predictability and supportability

Manage the integration of technical and engineering activities across projects in support of product certification

Oversee the activities of subsidiary Chief Engineers/Technical Authorities, to ensure product certification and release at the required standard, to schedule

Ensuring that records of all significant product design decisions are retained, including a record of the relevant Chief Engineers/Technical Authorities involved

Provide technical and functional leadership and direction to Technical Authorities

Approve engineering resource and engineering facility demands for projects

Support the wider Engineering community, through involvement in developing policy and standardised processes, shaping and sharing good practice

Engage with programme and engineering delivery teams as part of the stakeholder group delivering capability, equipment and design effort to SSNA

Your skills and experiences

You will need to have a broad and comprehensive knowledge of engineering principles and concepts, systems theories and practices

Good knowledge and experience of Combat System engineering functions or other similar complex systems

A comprehensive understanding of the legal and regulatory environment into which company products operate and function

Be degree qualified within a relevant STEM subject or hold the equivalent experience

Hold an Engineering chartership

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 SSNA – Integrated Combat Systems team

The SSNA programme within Maritime Submarines are proud to announce this fantastic opportunity within the team. This is a really exciting time for you to be a part of one of the UK’s latest and most complex Submarine design programmes to date and ensure that the overall Combat System meets platform and capability needs, via it’s Tactical Information Management function. It is a multi programme and will offer the chance to travel within the role. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

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 of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make sure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a 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 , any 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 Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 9th January 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.

Due to the festive season, there may be a delay in the processing of your application. Your application is important to us and we will respond as soon as possible. Thankyou for your understanding.

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