Electronic Hardware Project Engineering Manager

Job Title: Electronic Hardware Project Engineering Manager

Location: Isle of Wight – Cowes. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: Circa £70,000 commensurate with skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Responsible for the end-to-end coordination and delivery of engineering activities within a hardware development environment
• Act as the central point between system design, technical authorities, and project delivery to ensure that the right people, tools, and priorities are aligned to deliver high-quality products on time and within budget
• Lead daily stand-up meetings, reviewing team progress and short-term priorities to ensure alignment across engineering activities
• Collaborate with technical authorities to adapt schedules, assess cost and schedule risks, and drive mitigation and re-planning when needed
• Maintain close oversight of project control data, identifying and escalating resource requirements, delivery risks, and shifting priorities to the wider business
• Own the delivery of engineering content, coordinating across engineering, manufacturing, and supply chain to ensure successful outcomes
• Interface with key stakeholders including project managers, design authorities, and subcontractors, ensuring technical and delivery goals are met
• Ensure compliance with engineering governance, safety, and assurance processes, while also mentoring junior engineers and continuously improving delivery practices

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Degree STEM qualified, or equivalent experience
• Chartered engineer, equivalent or working towards
• Strong understanding of a core engineering discipline, with the ability to engage across related technical areas and interpret complex engineering issues
• In-depth knowledge of engineering planning, engineering maturity, and the full engineering lifecycle, particularly in a hardware or systems context
• Solid understanding of project management principles, including scheduling, resource planning, risk mitigation, and cost control
• Experience leading a multidisciplinary engineering team (typically 12+ engineers), ensuring timely delivery of technical outputs to agreed requirements
• Proven ability to navigate and solve complex technical challenges, balancing risks, trade-offs, and stakeholder expectations
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence and align cross-functional teams, and interface with both internal stakeholders and external partners when required

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.

The Radar Hardware Team:

At BAE Systems we are revolutionising radar technology, delivering world-class products and the next-generation capability that keeps the UK at the forefront of defence innovation. As a growing business working on cutting-edge solutions, we value the importance of investment in talent—people like you—who are eager to push technological boundaries, make a real impact and translate this into world-class products.

Our mission is clear: to equip our customers with the most advanced and capable systems available, through which we invest and build the UK’s sovereign capability for Radar. With strong backing from those customers, who are not only in close proximity but also deeply integrated in our strategic vision, we operate in a highly collaborative environment where what we do really matters.

Our Radar business operates across the entire Engineering lifecycle, with an incredible variety of technological challenges and exceptional integration facilities (at our various UK sites) to put this into action.

Joining our team means being part of a dynamic, forward-thinking organisation that values career development, technical excellence, and real-world impact. We’re on a growth journey, with that there are rich opportunities for you to develop, lead, and innovate way into the future. Join us and shape the future of Radar technology, we want to hear from you. We work in the business of careers not jobs – your future starts here.

The Flexible Working Statement:

As the world has evolved, so has the way we work. Our working approach, will enable you to have flexibility with your working hours, depending on your role and location. This could include accruing hours as well as flexibility around start and finish times, ensuring you can balance life at work, on site and life at home.

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 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: 21st April 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.

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