Job Description
Principal Engineer – Electrical Engineering (Power Electrics)
Location: Barrow-in-Furness / Hybrid
Contract Length: 12 month contract
The Role
Join BAE Systems as a Principal Engineer – Electrical Engineering (Power Electrics) and play a key role in developing and verifying complex electrical systems for the next generation of submarine technologies. You’ll act as a technical authority within the Compatibility Test Facility (CTF) team, ensuring system integrity, design assurance, and continuous learning across our programmes.
What you’ll be doing
Knowledge and experience in:
You’ll join the Compatibility Test Facility (CTF) Team – a small, focused group supporting the wider Electrical Power Systems function. The team verifies and troubleshoots designs in real-time, providing valuable feedback to improve system maturity and defect resolution across the Submarine Systems North Atlantic (SSNA) programme.
Why BAE Systems?
At BAE Systems, you’ll have the opportunity to make a genuine impact. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, integrity, and innovation, and where your skills will help deliver some of the most advanced engineering projects in the world.
We particularly welcome applications from women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals, as we continue to strive for greater diversity across our teams.
If you need adjustments to our recruitment process due to a disability or health condition, please let your recruiter know – we’ll work with you to make sure you have the best possible experience.
Please note: due to the nature of our work, roles at BAE Systems are subject to security and export control restrictions.
Location: Barrow-in-Furness / Hybrid
Contract Length: 12 month contract
The Role
Join BAE Systems as a Principal Engineer – Electrical Engineering (Power Electrics) and play a key role in developing and verifying complex electrical systems for the next generation of submarine technologies. You’ll act as a technical authority within the Compatibility Test Facility (CTF) team, ensuring system integrity, design assurance, and continuous learning across our programmes.
What you’ll be doing
- Acting as engineering and technical authority for CTF system design and verification.
- Providing technical leadership, guidance and oversight to ensure system maturity and design integrity.
- Developing, promoting and sharing innovative technologies and lessons learned across the business.
- Undertaking technical and document reviews in support of system qualification, build, test and commissioning.
- Defining qualification obligations and ensuring the adequacy and robustness of supporting safety documentation.
- Leading fault-finding and issue resolution activities, providing real-time feedback to wider engineering teams.
- Collaborating with internal and external stakeholders to ensure requirements are fully supported and incorporated.
Knowledge and experience in:
- Electrical equipment design, installation, commissioning, and through-life testing.
- System integration and the impacts of equipment changes on wider systems.
- Submarine or similar complex system development and integration.
- Ability to mature designs from concept to build.
- Strong analytical and fault-finding capabilities.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills with suppliers and internal teams.
- Experience managing configuration and change processes.
- Chartered Engineer (CEng) status or equivalent capability (expected).
You’ll join the Compatibility Test Facility (CTF) Team – a small, focused group supporting the wider Electrical Power Systems function. The team verifies and troubleshoots designs in real-time, providing valuable feedback to improve system maturity and defect resolution across the Submarine Systems North Atlantic (SSNA) programme.
Why BAE Systems?
At BAE Systems, you’ll have the opportunity to make a genuine impact. You’ll be part of an inclusive culture that values diversity, integrity, and innovation, and where your skills will help deliver some of the most advanced engineering projects in the world.
We particularly welcome applications from women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals, as we continue to strive for greater diversity across our teams.
If you need adjustments to our recruitment process due to a disability or health condition, please let your recruiter know – we’ll work with you to make sure you have the best possible experience.
Please note: due to the nature of our work, roles at BAE Systems are subject to security and export control restrictions.
