139 lead mechanical engineer jobs found

Job Title: Lead Mechanical Engineer Location: Barrow-in-Furness. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this role Salary: Competitive What you’ll be doing: As a Lead Principal Engineer within the SSNA Platform Mechanical Integrated Delivery Team (IDT), you will play a key leadership role in delivering engineering scope across a complex and fast-paced submarine programme. You’ll take ownership of multiple systems, provide technical assurance, and collaborate across disciplines to drive delivery forward. Leading the delivery of assigned engineering scope, ensuring quality and timely outputs across design, integration, and qualification Overseeing technical ownership of several mechanical systems, ensuring compliance with system requirements and effective collaboration across interface areas Producing engineering artifacts, including documentation, calculations and performing...

Job Title: Lead Mechanical Engineer – Product Assurance Location: Barrow-in-Furness. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this role Salary: Circa £55,000 What you’ll be doing: Deliver high-level engineering assurance across cutting-edge BAE Systems Maritime Submarines products, ensuring integrity across major Submarine Enterprise programmes Plan and prioritise assurance activities using a risk-based approach, optimising limited resources while working to the Submarines Engineering Product Assurance Framework Lead and support key assurance reviews, bringing your SQEP expertise to validate design decisions , technical bids, and engineering evidence Ensure products are safe, compliant, cost-effective, and fully integrated, with hazards demonstrated ALARP and configurations clearly controlled Provide independent oversight to design and technical reviews, offering...

Job Title: Principal Mechanical Engineer Location: Barrow-in-Furness. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role. Salary: Circa £55k What you’ll be doing: Design of multiple platform systems, sub-systems and equipment for the next generation Royal Navy submarines Undertake functional design activities, modelling and analysis Produce design documentation, Verification & Validation evidence and safety justifications Support specification qualification and procurement of components, working collaboratively with suppliers Engaging with stakeholders across the cross-functional project team Driving engineering governance through peer reviews and design reviews Your skills and experiences: Essential: Proven capability in system lifecycle delivery – from concept through to commissioning Demonstrated leadership – either through technical...

Job Title: Principal Quality Engineer – Field Engineering Location: Barrow-in-Furness, Field Based (UK/International) Salary: £45,000 (Commensurate with skills and experience) – with company car provided What you’ll be doing: You will have responsibility for the Quality Assurance and verification requirements of documentation and hardware of procured parts at the supplier’s sites across the UK / International You will be exposed to a range of our stakeholders, suppliers and products ensuring quality and compliance Oversight and witnessing of manufacturing operations and subsequent inspections Using a keen eye for detail to ensure verification of documentation in-process & final Utilising your knowledge and experience to providing advice, support and coaching to our suppliers Ensuring that high quality records are produced as an output of the production processes and inspections Your skills and experiences: Full UK driving licence...

Job Title: Principal Systems Engineer (Platform Integration) Location: Barrow-in-Furness – Hybrid – (dependent on business needs) Salary: Negotiable (Commensurate with skills and experience) What you’ll be doing: Representing the Combat Systems team while collaborating with the platform teams in Barrow Design and compilation of technical specifications to deliver capabilities in supporting the IV&V strategy Collaborating with the Combat System domains engineering teams to ensure their systems can be integrated into the platform Planning the physical integration and test of systems containing electronic, mechanical and software sub-systems, understanding the potential impact on the whole boat and interfacing systems Taking accountability for technical work packages and Combat Systems (CS) equipment Leading Platform Integration meetings bringing together key stakeholders to understand technical and programmatic risks and developing action plans to...

Job Title: Senior Mechanical Engineer Location: Coventry. This is an onsite position Salary: Competitive What you’ll be doing: In this role you will be joining a newly formed Mechanical Engineering team within a new office based in Coventry. The goal of this team with be to help deliver crucial ship services, crew life support capabilities and equipment and componentry for the current and next generation of Nuclear Submarine. This role will involved with supporting the design and development of various critical systems of the SSN AUKUS. You will be expected to lead and develop various mechanical engineering systems, equipment and components The successful candidate will connect and build relationships with suppliers to ensure that equipment and component specifications challenging demands Working directly with the customer to develop requirements and acceptance criteria based on operational scenarios, use cases and other design considerations...

Job Title: Senior Quality Assurance engineer Location: Glasgow, Govan (On Site) Salary: Up to £48,000 (dependent on skills and experience) What you’ll be doing: Embed oneself into the manufacturing and fabrication facilities to provide Quality Assurance and support to key stakeholders Carry out Surveillances, Audits, Process conformations and investigations as required Support the update of policy documents/User guides/Mis by attending reviews or First Articles Bring LFe from past experience and previous contracts to mitigate against quality escapes Document trends in Pareto Graphs to Identify opportunities for improvement. Attend/lead on Manufacturing project reviews and improvement forums Create and deliver PowerPoint slides, construct Toolbox talks and quality alerts Support Area/Ships leads by attending local stand up meetings and feedback to Quality Leads Your skills and experiences: Background and solid foundation of...

Job Title: Radar Mechanical Design Lead Location: Isle of Wight – Cowes – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role. Salary: Up to £85,700 (dependent on skills and experience) Part time & accruing hours available’ Please let us know if you would like to discuss these options. What you’ll be doing: Carry out detailed mechanical design and analysis activities to support the development of a complex new product Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure mechanical solutions align with overall system requirements Act as the Mechanical Design Authority, providing expert-level input across the full product lifecycle Apply subject matter expertise in key mechanical areas such as thermal management , structural integrity, or material selection Ensure design compliance with relevant industry standards, regulations, and internal processes Support design reviews, technical assessments, and the implementation...

Job Title: Principal Mechanical Design Engineer Location: Barrow-in-Furness. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this role Salary: Circa £55,000 What you’ll be doing: Lead the end-to-end development of complex fluid systems, shaping designs that meet demanding performance and environmental requirements Create and review high-value engineering deliverables – for schematics and P&IDs to calculations, system descriptions, and 3D models Drive advanced system analyses , including flow, pressure, thermal, and transient modelling to validate performance under challenging conditions Select and assess critical equipment (pumps, compressors, valves, heat exchangers, filters, tanks), ensuring it meet tough submarine operating environments Champion technology integrity by reviewing supplier documentation, ensuring full compliance with shock, vibration, atmosphere,...

Job Title: Principal HVAC Design Engineer Location: Barrow-in-Furness. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this role Salary: Circa £55,000 What you’ll be doing: Lead the end-to-end development of cutting-edge HVAC systems, ensuring they meet demanding performance, safety, and environmental standards Create and review high-impact engineering artefacts – from specifications and P&IDs to calculations and 3D models Drive advanced thermal, airflow, and pressure analyses toto validate system performance in challenging conditions Transform complex requirements into robust, innovative, and verifiable design solutions that set the benchmark for excellence Guide and influence engineers, suppliers, and design partners, shaping best-in-class HVAC integration across the platform Enhance design standards and evaluate specialist equipment, contributing to reviews, hazard...

Signalling & Telecoms Lead Technician (Level 1)   Established in 1992, Cleshar Contract Services Limited is a well-established company and respected provider of Track, Civil Engineering, Construction, and maintenance services to the railway industry. At Cleshar, we employ over 1,400 people across multiple projects and disciplines, delivering the following rail services to provide a sustainable future for the rail industry and enhance the lives of people and their communities. Key areas we cover include: •      Rail •      Capital works and Infrastructure •      Support Services •      Infrastructure maintenance •      Welding •      Safety critical resources •      Power systems •      M&E (Mechanical and Engineering) •      Signals and Telecom •      Safety Training   We are recruiting for a Signalling & Telecoms Lead Technician (Level 1)! Job Type: Full-time, Permanent Location: Silwood (SE16 2NE) Main Duties &...

At BAE Systems Australia Do interesting work that MATTERS ENJOY what you do GROW your career Be YOU We work in a thriving sector – one that puts us at the forefront of exciting and meaningful work. Every day we push boundaries to produce some of the world’s most innovative and ground breaking technology. Individually we all contribute to our success. Collectively we make the impossible possible. Recognised for delivering projects of global and national significance that help keep Australia safe, it is our shared passion that shapes our culture, and our people that make it a great place to work. About the OPPORTUNITY We have a new opportunity for a Project Engineer to partner with the Jindalee Operational Radar Network (JORN) program within our Battlespace Integrated Solutions business. Reporting to the Delivery Stream Project Manager, you will be based at Edinburgh, Adelaide and employed on a permanent full time basis. We embrace flexible work...

About Us: Since the 1950s, Leo Lynch has been providing the pharmaceutical, semiconductor, industrial, food, commercial and retail industries with professional project management and high calibre craftsmanship. At Leo Lynch, we build and manage complex engineering & construction projects for the world’s leading corporations. Our solutions help deliver technologies that connect people, communities and businesses, giving them the power to achieve incredible things. Leo Lynch employs the best people, invests heavily in training and education, and ensures that the highest standards of health, safety and governance are applied throughout the organisation. About the role: The successful candidates will possess a blend of technical and soft skills required to succeed, have technical knowledge of mechanical engineering and project management as well as the communication skills necessary to manage the project. Candidates must be able to interact with the project and client...

Job Title: Portfolio Manager Location: Glascoed Salary: Circa £55,869 dependent on skills and experiences What you’ll be doing: Accountable for delivery of the projects included within their portfolio Monitoring and reporting project/programme performance for schedule, technical, financial and quality objectives Establishing and maintaining strong customer and supplier relationships, maintaining regular communications and managing expectations Providing professional Project Management across several projects Identifying and developing follow on business opportunities related to their portfolio of products Financially planning and achieving acceptable business financial objectives for orders, sales , gross margin and cash Responsibility for ensuring that accurate forward load data is derived for projects from the business toolsets Your skills and experiences: Degree-level qualification (engineering discipline preferred) or...

  BAE Systems Digital Intelligence is home to 4,500 digital, cyber and intelligence experts. We work collaboratively across 10 countries to collect, connect and understand complex data, so that governments, nation states, armed forces and commercial businesses can unlock digital advantage in the most demanding environments.   Role summary We are looking for a talented and enthusiastic individual with excellent technical and client-facing skills, to act as a Solutions Architect experience in technical delivery of cyber security solutions, especially Security operations centres. This ranges from designing and delivering across technology, people, policy, process data and governance green field designs, including helping customers identify gaps and assisting them with capability uplift and maturity improvement.  The scope of work can range for Incident response through to multi-tenant security operations centres. This role is situated within our Government business, based...

Job Title: Electrical Instrumentation Engineer Location: Barrow-in-Furness. On-site Salary: Negotiable, depending on experience What you’ll be doing: Liaising with internal customers as required to foster collaborative working relationships and ensure requirements are adequately articulated, understood and met Installation of a variety of different instrumentation around site that captures our customer’s needs Fault finding and repairing of legacy equipment Work with BAE Systems’ supply chain department and equipment suppliers to deliver equipment that meets customer requirements Where appropriate support factory acceptance trial attendance and submarine system trials and analyse trial results when required Undertake peer reviews or checking/verification tasks as directed Provide support to the Certificate of Design activities Support the production of evidence in support of qualification, legislative requirements and safety justifications and...

Job Title : Principal Product Safety Engineer Salary: Up to £68,500 dependent on skills and experience Location: Scotstoun or Filton, – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role What you’ll be doing: Provide support to the Technical Authority teams with the management of the hazards, risks and associated mitigations and contribute to the development of the hazard log and the maturity of information contained within. Responsible for product safety assessment against major subsystems or key complex technologies Verify the quality of submissions to the Hazard Log Organise and facilitate HAZIDs and review meetings and contribute to other HAZIDs when required. Take the lead on all product safety activities associated with the equipment area allocated to them, potentially delegating, managing and reviewing the work of more junior engineers carrying out aspects...

Job title: Systems Engineer Location: Cowes, Isle of Wight/Broad Oak, Portsmouth Salary: Up to £50,000 depending on skills and experience What you’ll be doing: Apply the systems engineering principles of ISO 15288 to support the design of systems through the entire engineering lifecycle from requirement definition to system integration and customer acceptance into system support and disposal Discern and decompose requirements to system and sub-system level and manage these in an approved toolset such as IBM DOORS Next Undertake system design decomposition and modelling to subsystem level, including associated external and internal interface definition, and manage architectural models in an approved toolset such as CATIA Magic (Cameo) Help to define and articulate acceptance strategies in order to verify requirement compliance at each appropriate level of system design, supporting production of customer acceptance...

Job Title: Systems Engineer Location: Rochester Salary: Up to £44k pa dependent on experience What you’ll be doing: Collaborative engagement in teams to understand our customers’ needs, specify, design and develop unique systems using best practice, such as Model Based Engineering Integration, analysis and test of real time systems with leading edge technology and multiple technical disciplines such as electronic, mechanical, optical and software Taking responsibility for your work, understanding deadlines, accurately reporting progress, whilst sharing knowledge, feedback and ideas Your skills and experiences: Essential: Degree or equivalent qualification in a STEM subject (e.g. Systems, Electronic or Software Engineering, Physics, Mathematics) ideally 2.2 or above. Will consider 2026 graduates to start once qualified An analytical approach to understanding and solving complex problems Experience of developing theoretical electronic...

Our Reliability Maintenance Engineering (RME) team is central to Amazon's commitment to innovation. As Amazon evolves and adapts, this team makes sure that the tools and technologies we use do as well. As a Senior RME Technician, you'll help us stay one step ahead, adopting the latest technologies and identifying new and efficient ways of working. In this role, you’ll pay close attention to our processes to help maintain our high standards, and you’ll put in place upgrades to take that standard even higher. Key job responsibilities - Demonstrate best practice on using equipment safely and monitor teams to ensure everyone follows the correct processes - Keep track of equipment performance through visual checks, condition-based monitoring, and preventative maintenance tasks and schedule additional servicing when required - Supervise technicians on shift to support their development and act as the first point of contact for Reliability Maintenance Engineers - Solve issues in...