Product Development Engineer

BAE Systems; Usk; On-site; GBP 43,000; Full time

Job summary

Join BAE Systems as a Product Development Engineer in Glascoed, South Wales, where you'll support the Senior Engineer in enhancing warhead technology and product designs. Your work will involve managing product processes, ensuring high safety standards, and producing technical reports. This role offers a chance to contribute to significant defence projects in an inclusive and innovative environment.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible health and wellbeing benefits

Private health plans

Shopping discounts

Potential for annual incentives

Qualifications

• Proven record of supporting engineering teams and projects.
• Demonstrable mechanical engineering experience.
• Ability to read and understand engineering drawings.

Responsibilities

• Support Senior Engineer in improving warhead technology.
• Manage product design and development activities.
• Execute trials safely and manage reporting on outcomes.

Skills

Mechanical Engineering

Technical Report Writing

Engineering Drawings

Education

Degree/HND/HNC in Mechanical Engineering

Tools

Pugh Matrices

Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)

Design Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (DFMEA)

Job description

Job Title: Product Development Engineer

Location: Glascoed, South Wales

Salary: £42,132

What you'll be doing:

• Supporting the Senior Engineer and technologists in maintaining and continuously improving warhead technology and product designs used within business products
• Conducting and managing product and process design, development, test, manufacture and evaluation activities.Ensuring that safety remains the highest priority in the working practices of yourself and the team
• Executing and managing trials in a safe and suitable manner, from planning through to trials execution to reporting and presenting conclusions
• Application of effective Engineering Governance throughout the product development lifecycle supporting design reviews from concept to disposal
• Configuration and maintenance of Engineering Bills of Materials for products
• Product design and evaluation/down selection e.g. Pugh Matrices, Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Design Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (DFMEA)
• Supporting the generation of costed proposals for external customers

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Proven record of supporting engineering teams and projects
• Degree/HND/HNC or equivalent qualification or experience within mechanical engineering
• Demonstrable mechanical engineering experience
• Ability to read and understand engineering drawings and models
• Capability/experience of producing high-quality technical reports

Desirable:

• Experience of product/process design analysis techniques (Pugh, DFMEA, FTA, PCP, PFMEA)
• Knowledge of munitions design and manufacturing in a high hazard environment
• A working knowledge of Systems Engineering and Engineering design

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 Heavy Bomb and Payload team:

As a key member of the Heavy Bomb and Payload team, you'll play a pivotal role in delivering cutting-edge projects that redefine capability and performance. Reporting to the Senior Engineer, you'll ensure that every programme and project integrates strategic engineering development, resulting in robust, mission-ready solutions. This is an exciting opportunity to work within a global defence organisation and to further grow and develop your career.

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: 26th June 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.