Principal Metrology Engineer role involves leading a team to ensure quality, cost, and schedule requirements are met, while analyzing problems and generating solutions to improve operation, efficiency, and performance.
As a Principal Metrology Engineer, you will lead a team responsible for the calibration, maintenance, and delivery of test and production equipment. You will research problems and issues, gather information from various sources, and review defects to gain a complete understanding of the problem and all relevant circumstances.
Key responsibilities include:
* Reviewing the impact of problems, issues, and solutions on platforms, systems, assemblies, and units to ensure no unforeseen impact between or across remedial solutions and other systems.
* Leading, coaching, and mentoring teams to ensure they understand systems and protocols associated with work and tasks, and that their work is reviewed and approved.
* Ensuring team work meets quality, cost, and schedule requirements, and completing and reporting status against own and team's workload.
* Analyzing problems related to platform and support system issues, generating proposed solutions that impact operation, efficiency, and performance improvement.
* Reviewing solutions, including all documentation and approved data, and either approving solutions within own limits of authority or submitting and sponsoring approval from higher-level authority.
Essential skills and experiences include:
* CMI L5 / HNC / HND or equivalent experience.
* Demonstrated experience in Metrology, Calibration, or other related fields.
* Experience with apprenticeship standards, developing and coaching new starters.
* Ability to apply depth of expertise relating to engineering systems to resolve complex challenges, issues, and faults associated with installation, commissioning, operation, and performance of systems.
* Experience in establishing and maintaining direct contact and interface with customers and management, and delivery of projects.
Benefits include a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave incentive, and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. Additional benefits include flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work, and employee discounts.
BAE Systems is an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity, and merit, and empowers employees to fulfil their potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry.