Job title: Weights Engineer

Location: Warton – Hybrid and flexible working arrangements available

Salary: £49,135, depending on skills and experiences

What you’ll be doing:

• Creating and managing mass property models to be utilised to manage the mass data for all design standards
• Component and aircraft weighing activities, issuing risk class 1 data that will be uploaded to each aircraft
• Maintaining that data within very tight tolerances throughout the life of the aircraft
• Working with customers and delivering to time scales

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• HND/Degree in Engineering or Mathematics or equivalent with proven experience
• An awareness of mass properties engineering and its effects on military aircraft
• Good IT skills comfortable in the use and manipulation of Microsoft Excel and Mathsoft MathCad products
• Excellent record of delivery
• Read and understand engineering drawings

Desirable:

• Good communication skills and attention to detail
• Customer focused and excellent teamwork skills

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.

The Weights Engineer team:

The role involves activities across the product lifecycle, including capability enhancement programmes, supporting production and especially being reactive to the urgent needs of our customers as they operate the aircraft in times of peace and in conflict. Assessing new designs through to managing mass properties of full aircraft, both within the flight-testing regimes and customer air force operations.

The team operates across multiple platforms and many customers and so the work is dynamic, the demands are high, there are opportunities to learn from skilled colleagues and the rewards are in directly contributing to our customers commitments by ensuring aircraft availability during some of the most demanding of environments.

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.

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