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Job Title: Consultant Engineer – Electrical Engineering
Location: Barrow-in-Furness, Filton – 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
- Acting as the electrical SME providing technical leadership and guidance to a range of cross discipline internal and external stakeholders including equipment suppliers
- Managing the electrical interface with the electrical power system ensuring that a best for programme approach is adopted
- Technical ownership of the end to end delivery of key technology readiness projects essential in demonstrating an appropriate level of maturity is achieved in the end product prior to platform integration
- Supporting technical delivery of facility requirements needed to deliver technology readiness projects including the facilities to support the end product verification and validation activities
- Undertaking technical risk analysis and developing risk mitigation plans in support of equipment delivery into the SSNA platform
- Supporting the development and resilience planning for the SSNA Steam IDTs engineering team ensuring succession planning is in place in support of an enduring SQEP capability
- Independent governance, authoring and approval of technical artefacts
Your skills and experiences:
- Relevant 1st degree in Electrical Engineering BSc (Hons) / BEng (Hons) / MEng (Hons)
- Chartered Engineer (CEng) or working toward Chartership
- Knowledge of the integration of power electronic conversion equipment into power system designs (Inverters, rectifiers, Active Front End, filter interactions)
- Knowledge and experience of key Power system interface requirements (power system stability, power quality and protection co-ordination)
- Experience in developing and delivering power system / equipment level verification and validation plans (including technology readiness level strategies)
- Knowledge of the complete engineering life cycle of delivery an equipment or system in a complex engineering environment with many competing requirements (requirement generation through to test and commissioning)
- Relevant 2nd specialised degree or further education in Electrical Engineering (power systems / power electronics / electrical machine design) e.g. MSc(Eng) / MPhil(Eng) / PhD / EngD
- Knowledge of permanent magnet rotating machines
- Knowledge of Power System Analysis of AC and DC systems and modelling of Generation and control: Generators, AVRs, Govenors/Speed controllers
- Knowledge of the interface requirements of power system control and instrumentation for key equipment’s and components within a power system design
- Submarine operator experience
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 Steam Integrated Delivery Team (SIDT)
You will work as the Electrical Subject Matter Expert (SME) within SSNA’s Steam Integrated Delivery Team (SIDT). The SIDT is tasked with delivering key equipment into the SSNA platform, which is novel to a submarine environment. Due to the novelty of the equipment there is a need to support equipment delivery with additional parallel technology maturity enablement plans. This is a unique and exciting role that offers the opportunity to shape how the SIDT delivers the challenge! The role offers significant development in all areas from requirement generation through to development of verification and validation plans along with the facilities required to enable timely equipment delivery and parallel technology realisation.
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 diversity 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 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 at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities 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 National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.
Closing Date: 15th July 2025
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.
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#J-18808-Ljbffr- Location:
- England, United Kingdom
- Salary:
- £60,000 - £80,000
- Category:
- Consulting
