Senior Designer - Hull %26 Outfit Designers

BAE Systems; Barrow-in-Furness; Hybrid; GBP 38,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense contractor seeks a Senior Designer in Barrow-in-Furness. This hybrid role focuses on the design and development of Hull & Outfit capabilities for submarine projects. Candidates should have a comprehensive understanding of engineering principles and experience in high hazard industries. Proficiency in Siemens NX and Teamcenter is essential. The role offers competitive salary and benefits, including a flexible health and lifestyle package. Closing date for applications is 25th January 2026.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible health benefits

Private health plans

Shopping discounts

Qualifications

• Detailed understanding of engineering principles, systems, and practices.
• Experience in a design role from high hazard industries.
• Ability to influence others with passion and energy.

Responsibilities

• Support development of future System of Work for submarine projects.
• Drive transformation and challenge current capabilities.
• Engage with design stakeholders and share best practices.

Skills

Engineering principles understanding

CAD packages proficiency (Siemens NX)

Ability to influence others

Design experience in high hazard industries

Structural engineering background

Tools

Siemens NX

Teamcenter

Job description

Senior Designer – Hull & Outfit Designers

Location: Barrow-in-Furness. (Hybrid - 2 days onsite per fortnight)

Salary: Negotiable Circa £37,091+ (Commensurate with skills and experience)

What you’ll be doing

• Support the development of the detailed future System of Work that leverages the best practice capability from Siemens NX and Teamcenter to shape the future ways of working for submarines product development, related to Hull & Outfit.
• Drive transformation, challenge the status quo around capability development, focussing on maximising the value from the IT toolsets
• Support the early deployment, adoption and support to CAD/PLM system capabilities through early concept exploration.
• Engage with the business's Design stakeholders to elicit support from the Subject Matter Experts from Chief Engineer, Project Director, and designers for Hull & Outfit
• Collaborating as a team, sharing best practice and improving our product and design

Your skills and experiences

• Detailed and comprehensive understanding of engineering principles, concepts, systems, theories and practices.
• Previous experience within a design role with a background from a high hazard industry such as Aerospace, Marine, Oil & Gas Environment/background, Ship Buildings or submarines preferable
• Ability to use CAD Packages, particularly SIEMENS NX
• Willingness to learn and ability to influence others through passion, energy and enthusiasm for promoting engineering professionalism
• Previous experience with a Structural Engineering/Structural Designer/Structural Design Environment

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 Strategic Capability team

The purpose of this role is to support the design, successful roll out of Hull & Out elements of a digital transformation programme.

A key capability design position, the role will enable the detailed development and deployment of Hull & Outfit Capabilities for a new System of Work into BAE Systems Submarines, achieved through the development of the Siemens NX & Teamcenter CAD & PLM system. The associated delivered capabilities will enable the move within Submarines to: model based design, a digitally enabled lifecycle and the realisation of Submarines' aspiration to design, manufacture and transition into service our products at a significantly improved level of efficiency and pace.

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, 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: 25th January 2026

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.