Product Integrity Engineer – Senior Product Environmental Sustainability

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Product Environmental Sustainability Engineer

Location: Warton. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £54,793.00 – £60,326.00 + Depending on skills and experience

What you'll be doing:

Working with the Product teams, suppliers and customers to achieve our ambition to deliver more sustainable products without compromising performance by: –

· Setting the processes and capabilities to produce the product artefacts

· Environmental legislation and regulation impact assessment

· Environmental strategy and early lifecycle development constraints/rules

· Product Environmental analysis

· Identification of opportunities to reduce environmental impact

· Identification of product sustainability risk (materials, obsolescence)

· Life Cycle Assessment

· Climate Impact assessment (GHG, carbon foot printing)

· Sustainability assessments

· Environmental justifications/ case statements

· Capability assets (process, training, toolsets)

· Regulatory inputs

· You'll also have people manager responsibilities in this role.

Potential for short-term international travel working with working groups such as the International Aerospace Environmental Group (IAEG) representing the business to solve global environmental issues affecting the Aerospace and Defence Industry.

This role is key to supporting the business in our goal to achieve Scope 3 net zero in our Products covering both physical goods and operational services delivered within the UK and Internationally.

There is also opportunity to develop and gain experiences to achieve Chartered Engineer status with the Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment (or other professional institute) if not already achieved.

Your skills and experiences:

Essential

· Relevant engineering experience (STEM degree or equivalent Environmental qualifications)

· Process Development experience

· Product Environmental and/or Product Sustainability knowledge

Desirable

· IEng or CEng with Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment

· People management experience

· Understanding of REACH legislation

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.

The Product Environmental Sustainability Capability team:

We are part of the Airworthiness and Product Integrity Centre of Expertise.

As the Product Environmental Team (UK) we:

– Provide Engineering functional leadership and support for Product Environmental

– Provide pan-functional leadership and support for Product Environmental

– Provide a pan-functional capability to support the business with the management of Hazardous Materials across our platforms and products.

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.

Closing Date: 2nd May 2024

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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