Senior Fluids Capability Engineer

This role offers the opportunity to join the GCAP programme, gaining broad lifecycle experience while helping shape future engineering capability. As a Senior Fluids Engineer, you will support the Fluid Systems Pillar Lead in developing and delivering key engineering capability initiatives within a Digital Engineering environment. Responsibilities include managing and coordinating capability development activities, monitoring and reporting progress, and driving process improvements in collaboration with Flight Systems teams. You will also provide technical guidance and mentoring to early-career engineers, helping to strengthen team capability while contributing to the deployment of state-of-the-art engineering methodologies across the programme.

Core duties:

You will support the Fluid Systems Pillar team to develop and deploy engineering capability to teams.

Liaise with the wider engineering teams to coordinate and understand the capability needs

Have technical discussions with the multidisciplinary teams to understand outcomes of specific toolsets and how they affect the wider toolset architecture against the initial requirements

Be part of multidisciplinary trade studies to review the options for various toolsets

Support the capture of outcomes, key decisions, system definitions, etc. for engineering capability

Report back to wider Digital Engineering team and associated pillars to communicate issues, requests and recommendations for action and/or agreement

Task manage selected engineering capability development activities and their coherency across other disciplines and departments

Ensure high quality and timely artefacts are delivered in line with programme requirements

Support engineering planning, management and review activities

Lead maturity assessments of the developed solutions to ensure they are appropriate for the lifecycle phase

Degree or relevant qualification in Engineering, or equivalent experience

Experience working with fluid systems, in an engineering capacity

Ability to resolve engineering conflicts between disciplines, systems and capabilities, using data to solve problems

Experience managing and influencing stakeholders at all levels

The Fluid Systems team:

The Fluid Systems team sits within the GCAP programme, a strategically important programme that delivers the concepting, design, development, build and flight test of the 6th generation combat air system.

We, as a team, are central to the delivery of a Digital Engineering Capability to be developed and deployed to the programme, in an integrated manner that reflects state-of the-art methodologies.

Join BAE Systems and you'll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you'll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You'll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow, shaping a safer future, for all of us.

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