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Job Title: Principal Engineer – Nuclear (Nuclear Safety Regulation & Interface) 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: Competitive What you’ll be doing: • Managing and providing independent advice and guidance on the requirements of the Nuclear Site Licence, Authorisation and Environmental Permits to relevant business teams to ensure compliance with both statutory and contractual obligations, • Providing advice to the business to ensure that nuclear and radiation safety principles are applied appropriately to the development of compliant business wide standards, processes, management arrangements and documentation, • Directly supporting and influencing leaders and managers throughout the business to comply with key nuclear legislation to enable delivery of the complex Submarine platform, • Acting as a point of contact, developing and managing the interface arrangements between the business and the external regulatory authorities (ONR, DNSR & EA) and industry partners (MoD) Essential: • Experience and/ or knowledge of the Nuclear (or other highly regulated) industry and regulatory framework, • Experience of technical writing and persuasive written argument, • Engineering or Science (suitable discipline) degree, • Professional membership of an institution (or eligible for) As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive. The Nuclear Safety Regulation & Interface (NSRI) team: As a Principal Engineer within NSRI, you will be responsible for managing a small specialist team to provide advice and guidance to the business on nuclear site licensing, authorisation, and environmental permitting. The role manages arrangements for demonstration of compliance with relevant legal/contractual obligations, arrangements for interface with Regulators/co-Authorises and arrangements for delivery of an effective Operational Experience Feedback system. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria. 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 of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and 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: 4th December 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. #LI-GM3 #LI-Hybrid

Job Title: Principal Engineer – Test Integration Location: Barrow-in-Furness. On-Site Salary: Competitive What you’ll be doing: • Utilising technical information gathered from various stakeholders such as design teams to produce test documentation that will evaluate the rigour of the systems under test., • Understanding and interpreting the customer needs for integration activities and affect these once agreed as deliverables, • Undertaking integration testing in line with approved test procedures and taking ownership and responsibility for assigned systems verification and validation activities, • Investigating complex technical faults and queries of the (to be) integrated systems based on a considerable understanding of the underlying technical design, • Being able to gain an ample understanding of the underlying technical design of the systems under test and act as a technical liaison between design and commissioning teams on test related topics, • Compiling and communicating test/fault/investigation evidence and reports in verbal, informal and formal written mediums, • Developing test strategies and procedures in collaboration with Systems design teams Essential: • Relevant qualification or engineering experience held (Degree/HNC/HND or equivalent), • Ability to provide technical knowledge & instruction to emergent incidents, • Knowledge and understanding to provide technical guidance to Control Systems, • Knowledge and understanding of Electrical Testing and / or Software Testing As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive. The Test & Integration team: As a Principal Integration Test Engineer within the Test & Integration team, you will have the opportunity of developing and performing innovative integration testing, covering specialised systems of state-of-the-art electrical programmable equipment. You will also have a pivotal input to the development and creation of complex test procedures to govern critical de-risking activities. This team plays a critical role in testing the software of vital boat systems, writing test procedures and delivering measures to significant stages of the submarine build, and is a team that is expected to grow rapidly, allowing for development opportunities. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria. 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 of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and 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: 4th December 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. #LI-AG1 #LI-Onsite

\n Job Title: Principal Mechanical Engineer – PNED \n 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 \n Salary: £45,628 – £57,500 dependent on experience \n What you’ll be doing: \n\n • Collaborate closely with the build organisation, providing engineering support to ensure the final product aligns with original design intent\n, • Demonstrate a strong understanding of key requirements and critical dimensions related to major structural components\n, • Lead the assessment and implementation of design changes impacting primary structural elements, whether driven by emergent issues, continuous improvement, or process updates\n, • Support, or where appropriate, serve as the engineering representative within test and authorisation groups\n, • Develop specialised knowledge of the unique build sequence of the Reactor Compartment Unit and deliver ongoing engineering support throughout construction\n, • Represent the engineering function during the planning and execution of major construction milestones within the Reactor Compartment Unit’s scope\n, • Investigate and present robust technical solutions to challenges encountered during the construction of the Naval Reactor Plant\n, • Degree-level qualification in Engineering, preferably with a focus on Mechanical or Structural disciplines\n, • Proficient in interpreting mechanical drawings, with a solid understanding of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T)\n, • Familiarity with welding engineering principles and non-destructive examination (NDE) techniques\n, • Understanding of stress, fatigue, and thermal analysis principles in engineering applications\n, • Awareness of nuclear radiation shielding requirements and best practices\n, • Prior experience working within a nuclear plant environment\n #LI-MS1 \n #LI-Hybrid \n \n \n\n \n

\n Job Title: Principal Mechanical Engineer – PNED \n 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 \n Salary: £45,628 – £57,500 dependent on experience \n What you’ll be doing: \n\n • Collaborate closely with the build organisation, providing engineering support to ensure the final product aligns with original design intent\n, • Demonstrate a strong understanding of key requirements and critical dimensions related to major structural components\n, • Lead the assessment and implementation of design changes impacting primary structural elements, whether driven by emergent issues, continuous improvement, or process updates\n, • Support, or where appropriate, serve as the engineering representative within test and authorisation groups\n, • Develop specialised knowledge of the unique build sequence of the Reactor Compartment Unit and deliver ongoing engineering support throughout construction\n, • Represent the engineering function during the planning and execution of major construction milestones within the Reactor Compartment Unit’s scope\n, • Investigate and present robust technical solutions to challenges encountered during the construction of the Naval Reactor Plant\n, • Degree-level qualification in Engineering, preferably with a focus on Mechanical or Structural disciplines\n, • Proficient in interpreting mechanical drawings, with a solid understanding of geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T)\n, • Familiarity with welding engineering principles and non-destructive examination (NDE) techniques\n, • Understanding of stress, fatigue, and thermal analysis principles in engineering applications\n, • Awareness of nuclear radiation shielding requirements and best practices\n, • Prior experience working within a nuclear plant environment\n #LI-MS1 \n #LI-Hybrid \n \n \n\n \n

Job Title: Senior Safety Case Engineer (Human Factors) 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: Negotiable depending on experience What you’ll be doing: • Providing a Human Factors Intelligent Customer role within the Safety Case team, • Supporting human factors assessments, • Supporting the assessment of human error probabilities and any associated providing Human Factors advice, • Representing the Safety Case team in discussions with the wider business, • Providing an interface between the Safety Case and Human Factors Teams, • Supporting Safety Case delivery, • Contribute to Stakeholder Review of relevant documentation Essential • Degree in Human Factors or equivalent experience, • Demonstrable Human Factors experience, • Experience with writing Human Factors assessment reports and contributing to safety cases, • Human error assessment experience As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive. The Hazard and Analysis team You will be working with a team of technical specialist working within the site safety case team, which is currently around 30 strong and is growing and developing as we undertake the Dreadnought and Site Redevelopment Programmes. We are currently producing safety cases covering Astute and Dreadnought build and commissioning. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria. 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 of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and 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: 20th November 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. #LI-GM3 #LI-Hybrid

💼 Job Title: Registered Doctor – Functional Assessor 📍 Location: Barrow 💰 Salary: £72,000 per annum 🕒 Contract Type: Permanent (Full-time or Part-time available) 📆 Working Pattern: Monday to Friday, 37,5hrs per week (Hybrid) 2-3 remote Working About the Role Minerva, in partnership with our global client specialising in health and disability assessments, is seeking GMC-registered Medical Practitioners to join their expanding team. This is an excellent opportunity for doctors who wish to use their clinical expertise in a new and rewarding setting, while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. If you’re looking for a career move outside of the NHS — where you can continue developing your medical knowledge, enjoy structured hours, and explore professional growth — this could be the perfect role for you. As a Functional Assessor, you will: • Conduct assessments via telephone, video consultations to understand how a person’s health condition or disability affects their daily life., • Use your clinical judgement and communication skills to evaluate the impact of various conditions., • Produce factual, evidence-based medical reports that help the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) determine eligibility for disability benefits., • Complete assessments typically lasting around 45 minutes, with comprehensive training and ongoing support provided to ensure your success. What We’re Looking For • GMC-registered Doctor with a minimum of 2 years’ post-registration experience (FY2 or above)., • Strong communication and report-writing skills., • Ability to work towards individual and team goals within a supportive environment., • Broad medical knowledge, with experience managing a range of physical and mental health conditions. What’s on Offer • Competitive Salary – £72,000 per annum, • 31 days annual leave (including Bank Holidays), • GMC fee reimbursement & CPD support, • Private medical insurance & life assurance, • Enhanced maternity and paternity packages, • Flexible working – full-time, part-time, hybrid working, • Comprehensive clinical training and ongoing professional development, • Career progression opportunities across multiple clinical pathways, • Revalidation support with GMC fees reimbursed, • Company pension, • Inclusive, supportive work culture – recognised Disability Confident Leader, • Cycle to Work scheme, pension plan, wellbeing initiatives, and more Schedule • Monday to Friday, 37.5hrs per week, • No weekends, nights, or on-call commitments, • Genuine work-life balance For more information contact Fel on 07442038239 or 0203 9592000

Job Title: Electrical Design Engineer Location: Barrow in Furness - Hybrid - 2 days per week on-site Role Type: Permanent Salary: £40,000 - £46,000 depending on experience Our client, an established engineering firm, require an experienced Electrical Design Engineer to join their multi-disciplined team. Please note we can only consider sole UK Nationals (no dual nationalities) due to security restrictions As part of the Electrical Equipment Team, you will be involved in the specification and tendering of equipment within the Electrical Power System and subsequently will manage the technical side of the contract through staged design reviews through to design completion, working closely with external suppliers to meet the standards of engineering excellence required. What the role of the Electrical Design Engineer entails: Some of the main duties of the Electrical Design Engineer will include: • Writing technical specifications and supporting in the down selection and placing of contracts, • Liaising and collaborating with external suppliers and the customer, • Following design lifecycle management to ensure the delivery of equipment to specification, • Providing technical consultation to multi-discipline teams, suppliers and stakeholders on matters related to the power system, • Preparing technical reports, calculations, and presentations to communicate results and recommendations effectively What experience you need to be the successful Electrical Design Engineer: • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in electrical engineering or related field, • Proven experience as a power systems engineer / electrical design engineer with power systems knowledge, • Experience with high power, medium voltage power electronics, machines, and drives, • Knowledge of power systems, including conversion, distributions, and generation, • Working within a relevant engineering role to industry codes and standards, • Complex design programmes experience, • Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills This really is a fantastic opportunity for an Electrical Design Engineer to progress their career. If you are interested please apply as soon as possible as this position will be filled quickly so don't miss out!

Senior Nuclear Engineer Location: Cumbria - Hybrid, 3 days per week on site. Salary: £44,000-£48,000 plus package. Security Clearance: Sole British Nationals only – due to the nature of projects, candidates must be eligible to obtain UK Security Clearance. About the Role Copello are seeking an experienced Nuclear Engineer to join a growing team delivering cutting-edge projects within the UK Defence sector. What You’ll Be Doing • Reviewing design documentation and assessing plant design changes, • Assessing plant build maturity for transition between build phases, • Ensuring maintenance of reactor plant design intent throughout build and commissioning, • Supporting the writing and presentation of technical reports to aid problem resolution, • Contributing to programme delivery through innovative engineering solutions, • Supporting the Intelligent Customer function for reactor plant documentation and safety cases, • Gaining experience by learning from senior engineers and developing towards future opportunities Your Skills and Experience Essential: • Degree-qualified in Engineering or Physical Sciences (e.g. Electrical, Mechanical, Nuclear, Materials, Chemistry, Physics) or equivalent experience, • Understanding of the engineering lifecycle, • Strong sense of ownership and accountability in work delivery, • Ability to produce clear, structured technical reports Desirable: • Experience justifying design change, ideally within a nuclear environment, • Understanding of nuclear regulations and industry standards, • Experience within civil nuclear or defence/naval engineering, • Completion of a graduate scheme or prior relevant industry experience, • Strong presentation and communication skills

Bank Project Worker St George's House, Salthouse Road, Barrow-in-Furness, LA14 2JJ £13.34 per hour Hours as and when required Sanctuary Supported Living is delighted to be recruiting for a Bank Project Worker at our Homelessness Service, St Georges House, Barrow-In-Furness. At Sanctuary Supported Living, we specialise in delivering a wide range of personalised housing, care, and support services to help people across England to live as independently as possible. We're a national organisation, but we're not-for-profit and we think locally by putting our customers at the heart of what we do. We're committed to being our best and helping customers to be their best, as we support them on their pathways for independence. No matter your job - delivering support directly or working in our offices to support our frontline teams - your work makes a difference every day. And working with us isn't just another job. It's rewarding, inspiring, exciting and it provides an opportunity to make a real, positive impact on people's lives. Plus, we'll support you in reaching your aspirations and career goals, through comprehensive training and benefits. The role of Bank Project Worker will include: • Providing support to encourage our customers who have faced homelessness to maximise their own potential and independence, • Assessing customers' needs by writing and updating support plans, • Being a first point of call to receive and direct all customer queries, • Developing relationships with customers, ensuring that customers maintain personal choice, privacy, and dignity, • Liaising with external support links to improve customers' confidence, health and wellbeing and offer training and encouragement towards employment and education, • Handling occasional emergency situations, • Experience of working with adults who have experienced homelessness, • Enthusiastic and flexible with a strong "can-do" attitude, • Ability to work as part of a team and on own initiative, • Strong organisational skills as well as functional literacy and numeracy, • Ability to react quickly to changing priorities whilst working to deadlines and targets Brilliant work deserves brilliant benefits! As part of our commitment to making Sanctuary Supported Living a great place to work, here are just some of the ways we'll reward you: • A variety of online discounts and rewards from major retailers, • Health and well-being plans We are only currently accepting applications from those with the right to work in the UK. If you are applying internally, don't forget to use your internal careers account to submit your application. We might get a lot of applications so reserve the right to withdraw this advertisement at any time. Don't miss out, please apply early. Inclusion is one of our core values. Our goal is to be a diverse, inclusive organisation where our people thrive and meet our customers' needs with fairness and empathy. We know having a range of ideas and opinions makes a difference. We encourage and welcome applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support this mission. We will make adjustments throughout your application process, in line with Sanctuary's commitment to our Disability Confident employer status. Building Equality and Diversity Sanctuary Group encourages and welcomes applications from people from diverse backgrounds to support our commitment to offering an inclusive environment for our employees and customers. We work closely with the Home Office in order to prevent illegal working. An enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check will be necessary in the event of a successful application which we will pay for. Sanctuary Supported Living is a trading name of Sanctuary Housing Association and Sanctuary Home Care Limited, both exempt charities. Job Segment: Home Care, Healthcare

Job Title: Independent Nuclear Assurance (Principal Inspector) 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: Competitive What you'll be doing: Performing independent inspection, surveillance and concurrence of nuclear work on facilities, plant, equipment and nuclear support services, on-board and on-site to evaluate the nuclear and radiological safety and security performance at Barrow Inspecting and assessing the business's capability to progress the submarine build and/or projects in the Site Redevelopment Programme to their relevant next stage through the 'Hold Point Control' process Inspecting the business against the requirements of relevant legislation to assess the business' level of compliance Communicating, both in writing and verbally, the conclusions of inspections and their findings to various stakeholders at all levels, including external regulators, board members, senior managers and business peers Independently assessing the business' emergency arrangements exercises, providing feedback to those developing and maintaining the arrangements Providing oversight and challenge to various safety/ security committees and groups to ensure due process is being followed, and continuing nuclear safety is not compromised Maintaining oversight of Independent Peer Review activity related to safety documentation aligned with individual Assurance Plans Developing, maintaining and deploying an effective Operational Experience feedback system for the Barrow site that encompasses all relevant nuclear and radiological incidents and events, from both internal and external sources Your skills and experiences: Essential: Working knowledge of nuclear site licence conditions/authorisation conditions & working on a nuclear licenced sites from a similar role and/or security regulations/ or an equivalent regulated industry. Experience of managing programmes of work within the nuclear industry or equivalent highly regulated industry Experience of engaging and influencing senior management and external regulators Desirable: Marine Engineering Submariner background - Nuclear Plant Operators or experience of Nuclear Submarine Build & Commissioning Degree or equivalent in STEM subject Experience in Audit & Regulation Benefits: As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing and lifestyle benefits. Including a green car scheme, private health plans and shopping discounts - you may also be eligible for an annual incentive. The Independent Nuclear Assurance Team: As an Independent Nuclear Assurance Inspector, you will be working as part of a group of regulatory inspectors reporting to the Senior Engineering Manager (Independent Nuclear Assurance). The Independent Nuclear Assurance team acts as the internal regulator for the Submarines business, forming an evidence-based independent view of the business' nuclear and radiological safety and security performance. Through delivery of a comprehensive inspection programme, the team develops the evidence to support its findings and conclusions and has the opportunity to influence change at every level of the business including, the safety of our boat delivery programmes. The team form part of the Nuclear Safety and Regulation Department within the Nuclear Safety and Security Directorate. One of the main attractions of this role is the opportunity to work with all areas of the business. With the diversity of this role, you can be one day carrying out an on-board boat or facility inspection and the next interviewing a director in relation to a specific business requirement. We offer relocation support across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria. 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 of thought, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you'll be empowered to fulfil your potential. 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.