Senior Product Clearance Engineer

Job Title: Snr Product Clearance Engineer

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

Salary: £ 47,683

What you’ll be doing:

1. Support Qualification & Clearance activities across multiple contracts including the qualification of Avionics Systems design changes
2. Collaborate with Safety, System Problem Reports and Test Requirements teams to release capability in line with programme demands
3. Operate with autonomy as a senior engineer while assisting the Team Leader with team responsibilities and coaching junior team members
4. Generate Clearance documentation and assess certification evidence and shortfalls including their impact
5. Present certification for sign-off while identifying and tracking dependencies and coordinating with external teams for required inputs
6. Assess traceability of Clearance evidence and support wider programme reviews

Your skills and experience:

1. Knowledge of the Typhoon platform highly desirable or strong understanding of Avionics systems
2. Experience with the qualification and certification process
3. Familiarity with Jira Agile project management tool
4. Ability to work to agreed timescales with an understanding of configuration control
5. Excellent communicator with a STEM degree or relevant experience and qualifications showing integrity under delivery pressure
6. Structured approach to problem solving with ability to self-manage workload

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 AJT Systems Engineering Team:

The role sits within the AJT Systems Engineering Team, part of the wider Typhoon Avionics Systems function. This area comprises several multi-discipline teams, supporting both current and future projects for the Eurofighter Typhoon, working closely with our Customers and Partner Nations.

The Avionics Joint Team (AJT) is a multi-national, collaborative group responsible for Avionics Systems Architecture, Design, and Qualification. Within the AJT, each sub-team operates across different phases of the engineering lifecycle. The team you’ll join directly contributes to the delivery of key platform capabilities to both Core Nations and Export Customers.

You’ll work alongside experienced engineers within the Product Clearance Team, whose primary responsibility is the Qualification and Certification of strategic Avionics deliverables. This work ensures that the Eurofighter Typhoon continues to operate safely and effectively across the globe.

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, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals. We also 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: 23rd April 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.

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