Graduate Integration Engineer

Graduate Air Integration Engineer

Location: Prestwick (Ayrshire)

Start Date: 7th July 2025

BAE Systems offers a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements. However, during our Graduate Programme, you will be expected to attend your site 3-4 days per week. Please note, this may be subject to change in line with the needs of the business.

Salary: £34,000 + £2,000 Welcome Bonus

Come and join us in BAE Systems Air. We have a long and proud heritage in the development, manufacturing, upgrade, and support of world-leading combat and fast jet trainer aircraft. Today, we operate globally across multiple markets to support our customers wherever, whenever, and whatever their challenges may be. We support them across the whole life cycle of the air sector – from design, development, and production to the provision of aircraft, training, support, and maintenance.

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 fulfill your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds, especially those from sections of the community currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ individuals.

What You Will Be Doing

As a Graduate Integration Engineer, you will help deliver integration activities across our platforms and services to enable successful outcomes for our customers worldwide. Integrators are the glue that holds together various engineering activities across our disciplines. You will have a broad scope of work and help develop solutions and deliver activities on time, to cost, and to the highest quality by using excellent stakeholder management skills and working closely with our detailed subject matter experts. We seek enthusiastic learners with a positive attitude and a strong drive to succeed.

Graduate Integration Engineers will perform integration roles across several of our engineering disciplines, including Operational Analysis, Airworthiness & Product Integrity, In Service Support, Engineering Integration, Safety Engineering, Concept Engineering, Requirements Management, Qualification & Certification, Configuration Control, and Technical Management.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Influencing a diverse and highly skilled community of engineers across all levels of the organization to deliver successful outcomes, which may include non-engineering functions
• Developing relationships built on trust and support to enable engineering activities to be integrated effectively on time and to the correct quality, covering all stages of the engineering lifecycle – from concept to disposal
• Engaging with our customers to understand their needs and translating these into engineering requirements through to delivery of the most appropriate solution
• Being inquisitive and asking plenty of questions to help us develop new and unique ways of working, thinking outside the box to deliver innovative solutions, and embracing new tools and technologies to help move us forward for our collective future
• Being involved in platform-level engineering activities, bringing together sub-systems to form effective systems of systems
• Being responsible for delivering your own workload with team support to learn all you need to know – Integration is a team sport, but you will be responsible for your workload and trusted to deliver (full training provided)

Skills

As a minimum you will need to have obtained, or be predicted to obtain, a 2:2 in your Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in Aerospace Engineering, an Aerospace-related degree, or any relevant STEM-related subject.

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 is also valued at BAE Systems. Employees are encouraged to participate in community projects, STEM initiatives, and employee resource groups, offering valuable learning experiences outside their regular roles.

Recognizing 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 demonstrating aspiration, ability, and performance.

Benefits

You will receive several benefits, including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance, and a company-contributed Share Incentive Plan. You will 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.

On commencement of employment, you will be paid a one-off non-consolidated lump sum payment of £2,000 (the “Welcome Payment”). This provides you with the perfect opportunity to ease your transition, whether it be relocation cost, securing housing, ensuring smooth and reliable transport needs – anything to help kick-start your career in BAE Systems.

Inclusivity within Our Recruitment Process

We want to ensure that our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition (e.g., dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder) 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, 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 within 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 organization.