Senior Engineer - Process Assurance

Job Title: Senior Engineer, Process Assurance

Location: Glascoed

Salary: Circa £55,869 depending upon skills & experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Implementing, promoting and assuring the integrity of manufacturing processes, Process Integrity covers process safety matters predominantly, but the role will grow to cover process environmental and security issues
• Ensuring that manufacturing processes, facilities and equipment for both legacy and future products comply with appropriate statutory, corporate and contractual safety requirements
• Acting as the functional safety Subject Matter Expert for Engineering and the approver of Technical Requirements Specifications for facilities and equipment during the Process Concept, Design, Commissioning and Handover phases, Process Routine Operation phase & Process De-Commissioning phases
• Reviewing and assuring Process Flow, PFMEA and Process Control Plan documentation
• Assuring appropriate planning for preventative maintenance has been conducted
• Supporting and providing advice to project and site staff to ensure the generation of process safety deliverables and assure their credibility

  Your skills and experiences:

  Essential:

  • Science or Engineering degree, HND or equivalent - Manufacturing/ Electrical/ Mechanical (achieved or working towards)
  • Proven experience within a manufacturing environment - Process/ Aerospace/ Automotive

    Desirable:

    • Deriving and setting safety criteria using industry standards and best practice
    • Deploying the principles of functional safety, its lifecycle and the standards appropriate for munitions
    • Applying a range of techniques in conducting hazard identification and analysis and risk assessment
    • Analysing and applying risk controls within a structured safety management process, ideally in a high hazard environment
    • Producing robust and compelling ALARP and safety arguments

      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 Special Projects team:

      You will be integrated within a newly established project team as the Senior Engineer, Process Assurance, a key role in maintaining process integrity, ensuring consistent application of engineering standards, and driving operational excellence. You’ll work with a wide range of stakeholders to identify process risks, implement corrective actions, and embed a culture of continuous improvement. Acting as the functional safety subject matter expert for Engineering, you’ll provide assurance that products and processes meet internal, customer and regulatory expectations. The position will be based at the BAE Systems Land UK site in Glascoed, Monmouthshire on a four-day working pattern within a hybrid-working environment with occasional travel to other customer, manufacturing and test and evaluation sites.

      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: 17th November 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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