Engineering Manager

Job Description

Job Title: Engineering Manager

Location: Broad Oak, Portsmouth. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Up to £70,000 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• To lead the management and integration of the engineering elements of MCM (Mine Counter Measures) contracts, private venture (PV) development programmes and business winning campaigns
• Working alongside the MCM Lead to define technology and product roadmap and to drive forward the engineering aspects of that roadmap and technology investment plan
• To be the engineering point of contact for all existing MCM products and all MCM future product development.
• To provide leadership to the contract specific PEMs and wider Engineering team to successfully deliver MCM contracts to quality, cost and performance.
• Liaise with both internal and external stakeholders and install a common approach to reporting to those stakeholders, including metrics demonstrating maturity throughout the lifecycle.

Your skills and experiences:

• A detailed and comprehensive understanding of a single engineering discipline.
• Has a good depth of understanding within own discipline and is able to discuss and understand context and implications of technical issues across a limited number of other engineering disciplines
• An in-depth understanding of Engineering Planning and Engineering Maturity
• A detailed and comprehensive knowledge of the Engineering Lifecycle
• Defence or highly regulated industry experience is desirable

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 BAE Systems Mine Counter Measures (MCM) team:

BAE Systems Mine Counter Measures Team provides MCM products to a diverse range of customers worldwide. This role will provide engineering management support as part of a team delivering new capability and sustained production orders into a number of international Navies. You will have the opportunity to develop and enhance your skills and knowledge, with the potential to lead into more senior positions within a global business.

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 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: 18th October 2024

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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