Senior Engineer - Process Assurance

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Job Title: Senior Engineer
- Process Assurance

Location: Glascoed

We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: Up to £57,824 (dependent on skills and experience)

Who we are:

Join BAE Systems and you'll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you'll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You'll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow, shaping a safer future, for all of us.

From the depths of the ocean, to the far reaches of space, there's no limit to where a career at BAE Systems could take you.

Role Description:

As a Senior Engineer, Process Assurance, you will ensure the integrity and safety of manufacturing processes at the Glascoed site. Acting as a Subject Matter Expert in functional safety, you will support the development, implementation, and assurance of compliant processes across both new and legacy products. You will provide guidance to projects and site teams, ensuring process safety deliverables are robust and credible.

Working collaboratively with Engineering Delegated Authorities and SMEs, you will help maintain safe, controlled processes and support continuous improvement across process safety, with scope to expand into environmental and security aspects.

Core Duties:

Participation in establishing a complete and credible Basis of Safety (BoS) and/or Trials Readiness Certificates for each of the manufacturing processes at the home site including but not limited to liaising with delegated authorities to identify and implement functional safety requirements in line with industry standards and best practice, assuring and approving technical documentation and associated risk assessment documentation for facilities and equipment, approving commissioning plans and reviewing test evidence to support the approval of certificates of manufacture

Support and advise the delegated authorities in the business, in matters relating to process safety for projects and capital acquisitions

Ensure that the influence of Human Factors is recognised both throughout the implementation of the safe system of work

Learning and Sharing. Build, maintain and foster a strong Process Safety culture across the Munitions business amongst the wider stakeholder community. This may include leading training and engagement with internal new starters and/or other personnel across the home site, internal Senior Leaders, up to Sector or Group level, approval Authorities/Regulators and external customers

Participate as Approver in the Engineering Change Management process, for matters relating to Process Safety

Conduct incident investigations. Contribute to the management of the Data Recording and Corrective Action System(s) and other record-keeping systems

Chair Engineering Safety and Environmental Review Panels (ESERPs) and other Process Safety related reviews

Scrutinise documentation in support of applications for process-related Trials Readiness Certificates. Act as assurance approval signatory

Ensure that the framework of technical competencies is complete and maintained for Process and Manufacturing Engineering roles, and that relevant underpinning training and experience requirements are defined

Essential Skills:

You'll have a degree or higher qualification in a relevant engineering field, or equivalent experience

You'll have a proven track record of producing technical engineering reports

You'll be able to define and contribute to the development of process safety capability, including the creation of safety-related engineering training material

You'll be able to lead the implementation of process safety best practices, potentially acting as a trainer.

You'll have an understanding of safety aspects and the completion of assessments for compliance against various UK and other legislation

You'll be able to define and justify safety requirements…