Weights Engineer

Job Description

Job title: Weights Engineer

Location: Warton – on site

Salary: £47,683-£ 52,426 – depending on skills and experience

What you'll be doing:

• Defining and carrying out engineering tasks within your span of responsibility for you and any subordinate staff under your control
• Agreeing your work plan with your line manager and applying the most efficient engineering methods available
• Ensuring the technical content of your work and also that of subordinate staff, including deliverables, is acceptable to your line manager
• Ensuring effective interactions with your team, customers, and others, to promote the best interests of the team, department and company
• Providing efficiency and effectiveness suggestions for the development of Weights Engineering toolsets and processes within the discipline capability development framework

Your skills and experiences:

• Comprehensive knowledge of aircraft structure and systems Weights Engineering processes and methods, including early lifecycle weight, centre of gravity and inertia property assessment, and the management of weight targets
• Degree/HND/HNC in a STEM subject or equivalent professional qualifications in terms of formal education
• Relevant experience working within a Weights Engineering, Structural Engineering or Airframe related discipline
• Previous experience of managing staff would be advantageous

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 Weights Engineering Team:

As a part of Weights Engineering team, you will be, working within a multidisciplinary airframe team including designers, aerodynamicists, materials specialists, manufacturing engineers and structures engineers. You will be expected to support and manage work plans for yourself and for your team, contribute your knowledge and experience to help the team make effective decisions and be passionate and proactive in the development and deployment of the discipline capabilities.

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: 17th 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.