Working environment

This role is based within operational shipbuilding facilities and requires regular attendance aboard vessels under construction and trials. Successful candidates must be able to safely access all areas of a ship, including climbing ladders, negotiating narrow access routes, entering confined spaces, and working around scaffolding and temporary structures. Whilst the role is not primarily physically demanding, it requires a suitable level of mobility, agility, and resilience to safely undertake inspection, assurance, and oversight activities within an industrial maritime environment.

This is an on-site position based at the BAE Systems facility on South Street, Scotstoun, Glasgow, G14. The role offers a compressed working pattern of 8-hour days Monday to Thursday and a shortened day on Friday (37 hours/week), and there will be opportunities to support occasional night and weekend working.

What you’ll be doing

• Lead professional engineering oversight of ship construction and trials within the assigned technical area, acting as a senior MOD/National Armaments Director Group representative in the shipyard and helping to ensure delivery to the required contractual, technical, and quality standards.
• Coordinate and direct on-site assurance and inspection activity, ensuring defects, quality shortfalls and emerging issues are identified early, prioritised appropriately, and progressed with the shipbuilder and MOD project team.
• Provide leadership in the application of engineering judgement, supporting local decision-making, making clear recommendations, and escalating issues where needed to maintain delivery tempo while managing risk effectively.
• Lead or support key acceptance and assurance activities, including inspections, tests, trials, and readiness events, ensuring the required evidence is available to demonstrate compliance with agreed requirements.
• Build and maintain effective working relationships with industry partners, ship’s staff, and MOD stakeholders, using influence and clear communication to align priorities, manage delivery risks and support continuous improvement.
• Set a positive example for safe, compliant, and professional working in shipyard and trials environments, supporting the management of safety, environmental and indemnity risks and helping others understand their responsibilities.

Person specification

To be successful with your application, you'll need to show that you meet the following essential criteria:

• Lead criterion: Can demonstrate previous experience in:
  • Delivery of maritime projects; or
  • Ship or offshore oil/gas structures construction; or
  • Ship or offshore oil/gas structures maintenance / refit / upgrade; or
  • Ship or offshore oil/gas structures operation.
• Can demonstrate experience of providing technical advice and leading the delivery of successful Mechanical outcomes.
• As a minimum hold Incorporated Engineer (IEng) or Incorporated Marine Engineer (IMarEng) registration, or an equivalent professional registration recognised by a licensed Professional Engineering Institution. Candidates who can demonstrate equivalent professional competence may be appointed, subject to achieving IEng (or an approved equivalent) by 31 December 2027. Overseas registrations are acceptable where they are recognised under the International Professional Engineers Agreement/Accord.

Please see the Professional Engineering Institution Equivalences for a list of approved equivalent professional registration as per the requirements listed above.

Applicants should also consider their ability to work effectively and comfortably within an operational shipbuilding working environment.

AND

• Be able to satisfy requirements of and obtain ENG1 seafarer medical fitness certificate. For recruitment purposes, external candidates do not need to hold these but must have no known reasons not to achieve this within 6 months of employment.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £46,400, Ministry of Defence contributes £13,442 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides (opens in a new window).

• 25 days’ annual leave +1 day a year up to 30 days, 8 bank holidays and a day off for the King’s birthday
• Market-leading average employer pension contribution of 28.97%
• Annual performance-based bonus and recognition awards
• Access to specialist training and funded qualifications
• Support for progression
• Huge range of discounts
• Volunteering days
• Enhanced parental leave schemes

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