Senior Design Change Management Engineer

BAE Systems; Bosham; On-site; GBP 42,000 - 50,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace and defense company is seeking a Senior Design Change Management Engineer in Bosham, England. The role involves coordinating and monitoring engineering changes for Naval ships and ensuring compliance with design intent. Candidates should have a degree in engineering and experience in design change management. This position offers a salary up to £50,000, along with various benefits such as a competitive pension scheme, health plans, and shopping discounts.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible health and wellbeing benefits

Green car scheme

Private health plans

Shopping discounts

Annual incentive eligibility

Qualifications

• Proven experience in design change management with relevant toolsets.
• Strong knowledge of engineering change and design change management.
• Good understanding of MOD/Navy ethos and associated processes.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate changes to the configured baseline for Naval ships.
• Ensure compliance with design intent and operational safety requirements.
• Develop and maintain compliance with Design Change Management Plans.

Skills

Engineering change management

Project management

Problem-solving

Data analysis

Education

Degree in engineering discipline

Tools

Windchill

Job description

• Coordinating and monitoring all changes to the configured baseline for all Naval ships maintained at HMNB Portsmouth: collaborating with key stakeholders across the engineering community and the MOD.
• Applying robust governance: Upholding engineering governance standards, ensuring sufficient evidence exists that confirms engineering changes have been fully integrated and that the design intent has been achieved.
• Assuring Compliance with Design Intent: Monitoring for deviations from design intent and ensuring the platform's material state remains compliant with operational and safety requirements.
• Developing, maintaining and ensuring compliance with Design Change & Configuration Management Plans in line with MOD policy.
• Managing configuration updates to artefacts impacted by engineering change, ensuring timely delivery within their associated repositories.
• Acting as Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the Design Change & Configuration Management systems and toolsets used by the Enterprise.
• Acting as a champion for driving continuous improvement to the way the team operates.
• Degree in an engineering discipline and/or proven experience in the field of design change management, with experience of relevant toolsets, such as Windchill.
• Strong knowledge of engineering change and design change management.
• Good understanding of the MOD/Navy ethos, including experience with the associated processes, toolsets and personnel.
• Previous success working within an intensive engineering delivery team.
• Proven leader with excellent PM and problem-solving skills, delivering rigorous data analysis and manipulation while coordinating high-quality outputs from diverse internal and external stakeholders.
• Understanding of Configuration Management, and Systems Engineering principles is desirable.

As Senior Design Change Management Engineer

You will be a key member of a continually evolving and expanding engineering team that are ultimately responsible for the successful management of Design Changes for the Royal Navy across multiple classes including T45, QEC and Hunt MCMV, as well as contributing to the ongoing maintenance and improvement of these vital vessels.

Comprising 200+ Engineers, the Warship Technical Authority sits within the Asset Management arm of BAE Systems Maritime Services and plays a key role with supporting a range of international customers, as well as the UK MoD with its Royal Navy Warships located at Portsmouth Naval Base.

Salary: Up to £50,000 dependent on skills and experiences. 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.