ME5 – Principal Manufacturing Engineer

BAE Systems
United Kingdom
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Industrial, Process & Manufacturing EngineeringSkills: ["Stakeholder management","Facilitation","Resource management","Team leadership","Continuous improvement"]

Develop, implement, and govern manufacturing and verification methods across the product lifecycle, ensuring requirements for Safety, Quality, Cost, and Delivery are met. Lead a multidisciplinary team delivering NC programmes and local machine support across multiple production facilities, while maintaining manufacturing instructions, capability requirements, and Installation Sequence and BOM. Coordinate planning with stakeholder needs and drive continuous improvement using industrial engineering principles.

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ME5 – Principal Manufacturing Engineer

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Job Summary

Develop, implement, and govern manufacturing and verification methods across the product lifecycle, ensuring requirements for Safety, Quality, Cost, and Delivery are met. Lead a multidisciplinary team delivering NC programmes and local machine support across multiple production facilities, while maintaining manufacturing instructions, capability requirements, and Installation Sequence and BOM. Coordinate planning with stakeholder needs and drive continuous improvement using industrial engineering principles.
Location: United Kingdom
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Industrial, Process & Manufacturing Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Develop, implement, and govern manufacturing, assembly, disassembly, and repair methods (including method of verification) aligned to safety, quality, cost, and delivery requirements.
  • •Manage a multidisciplinary team delivering NC programmes and local machine support across three production facilities.
  • •Develop and maintain manufacturing instructions, support design reviews, and define facility and tooling capability requirements.
  • •Develop Bills of Materials and Installation Sequences for manufacturing.
  • •Drive coordination and task delivery using multiple software systems, machine controls, and manufacturing technologies.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: GBP 51,191 annually

Key Requirements

  • •Experience in process planning, NC programming, tool definition, quality engineering, and industrial engineering.
  • •Experience implementing Continuous Improvement systems and facility investment activities.
  • •Strong project and task management with interpersonal, facilitating, and stakeholder management skills.
  • •Ability to interpret requirements, specifications, and engineering outputs including models and drawings.
  • •Basic understanding of steel fabrication and welding, plus knowledge of Lean/Six Sigma/ToC, tolerance and variation management.
Skills:Stakeholder managementFacilitationResource managementTeam leadershipContinuous improvement

Eligibility

Security Clearance:Baseline Personnel Security StandardNational Security Vetting

Company Brief

BAE Systems
Multinational defence, security and aerospace company designing, manufacturing and supporting military and civilian systems including naval ships, submarines, aircraft, cyber solutions and electronic systems for governments and commercial customers.
Industry: Defense Manufacturing
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: London, United Kingdom
Founded: 1999
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