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Job Title:Integration / Airworthiness Specialist

Location:Warton / Reading

We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this role.

Salary:£54,793 + (Commensurate with skills and experience)

What you will be doing:

  • Supporting the delivery of the Certification Programme (MACP)
  • Managing stakeholders and relationships (internal and external), data flows, timing throughout process
  • Advise on robust methods of traceability from requirements to compliance evidence
  • Identify proposals for changes to the MRP part 21 to ensure design organisation approvals reflect the digital engineering transformation

Your skills and experiences:

Knowledge:

  • Degree educated in a STEM discipline or HND/HNC with time served experience
  • Knowledge of the Certification Regulatory Framework (Military or Civil)
  • Model Based Systems Engineering and related techniques, processes and tools
  • Safety Engineering processes, practices and tools

Experience:

  • Delivering a Certification programme
  • Engineering integration role within any lifecycle / product area

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Airworthiness – FCAS Team:

An exciting and unique opportunity has arisen for an Integration / Airworthiness Specialist to join the Airworthiness – FCAS team. This team sits within the Airworthiness and Product Integrity Digital Engineering Capability Team of BAE Systems AIR division.

The team operates across all Air products (goods and services) providing product safety, product environmental sustainability and product security engineering resource to all programmes across the business. In addition, the team delivers the independent assurance activities associated with airworthiness, product safety, product environmental sustainability and product security in a collaborative and supportive environment. This specific role will be working in the following areas:

  • Development of the future 6th generation fighter engaging with the tri-lateral Airworthiness Authorities and Regulators to ensure that airworthiness and product integrity in a digital environment is delivered safely and securely, and in line with the Certification Regulatory Framework.
  • Exploitation of technological advancements in areas such as autonomy, artificial intelligence and the continued use of product integrity data linking into the digital engineering environment.
  • Engaging with international working groups, including the supply chain, in the development of legislation, regulation and standards associated with digital certification, autonomy, AI, product safety and product security engineering.
  • Sustaining the initial integrity of Air products through production challenge and review of design, certification and assurance evidence (including product data requirements) in line with market legislation and regulatory obligations.

Overseas travel to Italy and Japan and within the UK will be required and career progression and development is encouraged within the team and the wider business.

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:30th March 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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