Qual & Cert Senior Engineer

. Job title: Qualification & Certification Senior 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: £47,683+ depending on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Assurance of clear Technical Requirements from the customer

• Interface with Contract Team’s/ Technical Managers/ Programme Engineering Managers/ Chief Engineers Office/ Airworthiness

• Assure technical compliance of Aircraft System/ Technical Authority clearance statements

• Coordinate and integrate Weapon System and associated Support Product clearances

• Authoring of Aircraft & Support level clearance documentation

  Your skills and experiences:

  Essential:

  • An Engineering background with appropriate qualifications in a relevant STEM subject

  • Experience working in, or closely to, a systems engineering environment

  • Ability to interface and influence at all levels across several stakeholder organisations

  • Ability to operate within highly focused team, providing support to both internal and external stakeholders as required

  • Proactive approach to problem solving and collaboration

    Benefits:

    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 Weapon System Engineering (WSE) Qualification and Certification (Q&C) Team:

    The Weapon System Engineering (WSE) Qualification and Certification (Q&C) team is responsible for all Typhoon Weapon System level qualification and certification activities for the Aircraft and Support Products across Eurofighter/ NETMA programmes, Export and UK National activities. The role offers the opportunity to work in an agile environment, where clearances are required to support a continuously evolving product for both Warton based development programmes and in-service capability release. The role is highly visible within the business and as such would be ideal for individuals who are looking to gain experience of dealing with senior stakeholders. The role will cover the through life engineering aspects associated with clearance activities (Aircraft and Support).

    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.

    We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, who are BAE Systems employees and have been in their current role for 12 months or longer.

    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: ^{3rd September 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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