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Job Title: Senior Manufacturing Engineer – Tooling

Location: Barrow-In-Furness (On-site)

Salary: £42,000+ Depending on experience

What you’ll be doing:

Responsible for all aspects of tooling from procurement to final delivery, liaising with all stakeholders and providing guidance and reporting as required

Provide specialist advice on tooling options (applicability for task) and support the operations teams with tooling issues and problem solving where required

Leading tooling, calibration and capability reviews as needed

Be responsible for communicating and working with a variety of stakeholders to deliver packages of work which achieve a ‘business best practice’ solution

Provide functional support to local and business wide improvement initiatives. (e.g. Visual management, Safety, Quality, Cost, Delivery, People, Learning from experience etc.)

Lead, develop, and motivate any reporting and assigned staff through good communications, open and honest management techniques, in keeping with the Company values, policies, & procedures

Responsible for identifying own development opportunities

Build effective internal and cross functional relationships to achieve overall Project requirements

Your skills and experiences:

Able to work as part of a multi-disciplined team and provide guidance to early careers engineers as part of their development

Accountability of onsite tooling contract management within remit for ME tooling team (i.e. tooling trials on-site)

HNC qualification or equivalent experience in mechanical or structural engineering

Background in manufacturing or production environments

Experience working with build aids, jigs/fixtures, or construction tooling

Exposure to interim products or sub-assemblies within high-hazard industries

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 Manufacturing Engineering Team

As a Senior Manufacturing Engineer, you will have significant involvement in key Manufacturing Engineering projects. You will use your knowledge and experience to guarantee delivery of Manufacturing Engineering outputs into Operations that ensure design intent can be met. The role holder will advise, coach and lead other team members as part of their daily responsibilities We offer relocation support across all Submarine 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 nationality, 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. Thank you for your understanding.

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