Job Title: Structural/Outfit Designer

Location: Halifax, NS

What You’ll Be Doing

Create accurate blueprints and schematics for manufacturing, ensuring compliance with design standards and specifications
Collaborate with Structural, Outfit, and Piping teams to ensure design accuracy, regulatory compliance, and alignment with project objectives
Tackle complex design challenges, ensuring that ship systems integrate seamlessly and meet safety and operational standards
Participate in inspections and testing to verify design accuracy and performance, ensuring all systems meet technical specifications and quality standards
Ensure the quality and performance of your work by following the Detail Design Quality Management Policy
Identify and analyze quality issues, implementing corrective and preventive actions to enhance design efficiency, reduce errors, and improve overall work quality
Interpret and communicate design requirements, progress, and challenges with Team Leads and other stakeholders to ensure alignment and clear understanding across the project

Your Skills And Experiences

Proficiency with CAD software (e.g., AutoCAD, CATIA)
Hands-on experience in designing ship structures or outfit designs
Strong attention to detail and analytical skills
Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and collaborate across teams

Benefits

You’ll receive benefits including a generous annual leave allowance and paid sick leave. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, group health, dental, and vision benefits as well as life insurance – you may also be eligible for an annual bonus.

In addition, you will also be entitled to a Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) company match of up to 5% of your annual salary.

The Detail Design Team

As a Detail Designer, you will manage design tasks related to ship structures, piping systems, or outfit designs. You will create 3D models and 2D technical drawings for ship components (structural elements, piping, or outfit systems) using CAD software. You will be working closely with various teams in Canada and the UK to ensure the accuracy, safety, and quality of designs. This is an exciting opportunity to join the River Class Destroyer program and work with BAE’s renowned warship design team, with ample opportunities for career growth and development.

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. We also 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 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 those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Closing Date: June 30th,2026

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.

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