Job Title: Senior Manufacturing Engineer - Dimensional Management
Location: Barrow-in-Furness - 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:
Identify and manage key dimensional variation across the boat
Identify key characteristics that require control
Analyse pertinent historical manufacturing capability data
Assess tolerances, datums and GD&T to create an understanding of the assembly relationships and "build-up" of parts that contribute to the variation in the boat's key characteristics
Create Quality Plans, Pictorial Measurement Instructions and establish hold points in the detail process plans
Identify and validate metrology
Work closely with Operations to manage key characteristics throughout build providing dimensional build-line support where necessary
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
Minimum of an NVQ Level 3 or equivalent
Excellent understanding of Geometric Dimensioning and Tolerancing in drawings and CAD
Basic understanding of dimensional measurement systems and principles
Desirable:
Knowledge of Lean manufacturing/Six Sigma/APQP
Understanding of Submarines Build Strategy
Experience working with Siemens NX and Teamcenter
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.
Manufacturing Engineering Team:
As a Manufacturing Engineer, you will be pivotal in identifying and assessing key product characteristics, in the design. It'll be your role to define plans for controlling these characteristics during build, helping to reduce variation, ultimately reducing lead times and cost to the business and the customer.
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.
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.