Nuclear Technical Specialist - Systems Training

BAE Systems; Ulverston; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense contractor in the UK is looking for a Nuclear Technical Specialist to join their team in Barrow-in-Furness. This role involves developing and delivering nuclear training packages, ensuring compliance with safety standards, and engaging with experts to enhance training quality. The ideal candidate has experience in nuclear systems and a strong background in training development. Competitive benefits and support for relocation are offered.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible health and wellbeing benefits

Private health plans

Shopping discounts

Annual incentive eligibility

Qualifications

• Demonstrable knowledge of nuclear systems related to nuclear submarines.
• Experience in developing training packages for diverse audiences.
• Ability to tailor training to audience needs.

Responsibilities

• Develop and deliver nuclear training packages.
• Ensure nuclear safety is prioritised in training.
• Engage with SMEs to develop nuclear skills.

Skills

Knowledge of nuclear systems and safety compliance

Experience in developing training packages

Tailoring training to suit audience requirements

Organisational skills

Risk and issue management appreciation

Job description

Job Title

Nuclear Technical Specialist – Systems Training

Location

Barrow-in-Furness - Primarily onsite

Salary

Competitive

What you’ll be doing

• You will be joining a multi-skilled team charged with developing and delivering key nuclear training packages, as well as providing assurance on the wider learning and development processes and outputs that have relevance to nuclear safety.
• Delivering strategic nuclear training goals ensuring nuclear safety is prioritised; supporting the development and delivery of key nuclear training packages for your own area of specialism to meet programme, business, and customer requirements, including providing expert advice and guidance into the evolution of relevant training assets.
• Acting as a critical friend to support development of training assets within your specialism to improve the quality of delivery of training packages pertinent to nuclear safety.
• Engaging with customers and stakeholder Subject Matter Experts to maximise the development of specialist nuclear skills and capabilities.
• Maintaining compliant administration, governance, and assurance of nuclear training according to agreed policies and procedures.
• Maintaining and developing your own nuclear shipbuilder competence through activities within nuclear departments such as build, test and commissioning, regulatory interface or nuclear assurance. You can expect to be applying Naval Nuclear Steam Raising Plant expertise to complex engineering product, system, and process development or problem resolution.

Your skills and experiences

• Demonstrable knowledge of nuclear systems and/or safety compliance, particularly related to the build environment of Nuclear Submarines.
• Suitable qualification and experience in the development and delivery of training packages to a wide range of audiences.
• Good experience in the ability to tailor training to best suit audience requirements.
• Well-honed organisation skills, agility and responsiveness to customer requirements.
• Appreciation of risk and issue management, supported by analytical skills and problem solving.

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 Nuclear Discipline, Skills and Capability Department

We are expanding our Nuclear Skills, Capability, and Compliance Team to support the delivery of major programmes of strategic national and international importance. These are brand-new roles at BAE Systems Submarines, created to facilitate and manage training and compliance to enable a competent and resilient business resource. You will be joining a team based at Barrow-in-Furness whose main task is to deliver, govern and assure Nuclear Baseline compliance, training and licensed site arrangements. You will have the opportunity to gain product-facing skills across other nuclear departments, liaising with cross‑functional teams in Engineering and Manufacturing, as well as working directly with Senior Nuclear Leadership teams. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

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, merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to ensure 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

27th 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.