Undergraduate Site Operations

Industrial Placement: Submarines Site Operations

Location: Barrow (Cumbria)

Start Date: 23rd June 2025

Join our Submarines Team to be a part of designing, building, testing, and commissioning the largest and most advanced submarines ever operated by the Royal Navy. Work alongside our Astute Class and Dreadnought Class Submarines to provide a powerful and secure deterrent for the United Kingdom 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. You could be the difference.

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, rewards integrity and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ individuals.

What You Will Be Doing

As Site, Facilities & Infrastructure, we are responsible for running and maintaining the 156-acre Barrow site and ensuring it is operational 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. We utilise a highly skilled, fully flexible team, ensuring legislative compliance and minimum disruption to enable the shipyard to build submarines safely and efficiently. The work we do is key to maintaining our Nuclear Site Licence.

In this dynamic role, you will be at the heart of our operations, playing a crucial part in ensuring our site runs smoothly around the clock. As part of the site operations team, you will be responsible for helping to maintain and optimise our facilities, ensuring compliance with regulations and supporting the ongoing transformation of our site.

Working alongside experienced professionals in areas like project management, engineering, and facility management, you’ll gain hands-on experience and invaluable insight into how a complex site like ours functions day-to-day. From managing assets to ensuring health and safety standards are met, you will be involved in every aspect of our operations, making sure our facilities are always at their best.

This is a unique opportunity to work within a high-stakes environment, where your contributions will not only support our critical operations but will also have a lasting impact on the future of our organisation. If you’re looking for a challenging and rewarding placement that will give you a solid foundation in site and facility management, this is the role for you.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Opportunities to work within our Facilities, Tenancy, and Estates Management teams to support site operations and deliver essential services.
• Assist in delivering facilities management activities, including site services, space management, and utilities infrastructure to ensure smooth site operations.
• Manage and oversee planned maintenance, refurbishments, and repairs, ensuring all tasks are completed efficiently and to high standards.
• Engage in the full lifecycle of site and facilities management, from initial service provision to construction delivery and ongoing maintenance.
• Respond to routine and emergency situations with effective problem-solving, ensuring minimal disruption to site operations.
• Coordinate and manage third-party contractors performing facilities tasks, ensuring work is delivered on time and meets quality standards.
• Foster positive working relationships within the team and with wider stakeholders, ensuring clear communication and collaboration.
• Take responsibility for your work, ensuring tasks are completed safely, accurately, and to the required specifications.

Skills

As a minimum requirement you’ll need to be on track to obtain, a 2.2 in your Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Facilities Management. We welcome applicants from a variety of disciplines including Business, Project, Engineering, or related fields.

Opportunities for Growth and Development

We encourage employees to explore projects beyond their primary responsibilities, providing them with diverse experiences. With a wide range of products and a multinational presence, there are ample opportunities for employees to engage in various projects and initiatives.

Community Involvement

In addition to professional development, BAE Systems value community engagement. Employees are encouraged to participate in community projects, STEM initiatives, and employee resource groups, offering valuable learning experiences outside of their regular roles.

Retention and Career Development

Recognising the importance of retaining talented individuals, we offer sponsorship, career development support, and high-potential development programs. These initiatives aim to help employees plan their careers effectively and provide opportunities for accelerated development for those who demonstrate aspiration, ability, and performance.

Benefits

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a company-contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

Inclusivity Within Our Recruitment Process

We 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.

Our Environmental Responsibility

As a future-focused business, we’re committed to changing the world we live in for the better. Our target is to achieve net zero emissions by 2030. We’re innovating new ways to develop on-site renewable electricity and setting ambitious targets for water consumption and waste generation.

Export Control/Security

Please be aware that many roles working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit the roles you can perform for the organisation.