Lead Systems Engineer

Job Title: Lead Systems Engineer

Location: Rochester, Kent.

Salary: Up to £70,000 dependent on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Understanding the packages of work, size and time phasing, how these contribute to critical path and/or milestones

• Understanding the team size and skillset required across the team

• Understanding any major dependencies or facilities required across the team

• Contributing to strategic project aspects and facilitating implementation of initiatives

• Giving regular status and recommendations on the resourcing requirements to the project and the functional engineering manager

• Support the business by creating new estimates for bids and maintaining the schedule and budget for on-going projects

• Supporting the team members with their career development in conjunction with the Functional Manager

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Good experience leading a systems engineering team in relevant product markets and/or domains, such as controls, real time displays or safety related systems

• Experience in managing projects to tight schedules and budgets

• Proven experience across the product development lifecycle, using tools such as DOORS, Siemens Polarion, Enterprise Architect, CAMEO, MATLAB and/or Simulink

• A degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant Scientific/Engineering subject (e.g. Systems Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Physics or Mathematics)

Desirable:

• Experience in integration, test, and/or verification of real time and/or safety related systems

• Customer and/or supplier liaison experience for technical aspects, verifying and obtaining agreement that customer needs are satisfied

• An understanding of information assurance, cyber security and environmental impact aspects relating to real time embedded engineering products

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 Systems Engineering team:

We are looking for experienced and dynamic individuals to step up and provide coordination and strategy for execution of the systems engineering on one or more projects in the Rochester business. This role will provide support to the functional department and projects through work package scope, scheduling, resources and strategy for the project systems domain. Your role will include working with Engineering Project Managers to broadly understand the near-term work planned (3mth – 6mth) and longer term work planned (18mth – 24mth); what is critical path for the overall project; who is assigned to each task and whether we are able to pair Subject Matter Experts (SME) with developing Engineers to support Knowledge Management as we go. You will be leading a team of highly capable engineers to deliver against your plans and estimates. Uncover and communicate emerging issues with progress and investigate to determine whether they can be dealt with “in-house”. You will define when and what help from other teams or parts of the business is recommended to enable dependencies or provide timely solutions.

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: 22nd September 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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