Future Radar Portfolio Engineering Manager

Job Title: Future Radar Portfolio Engineering Manager

Location: 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 £ 80 k + depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead and manage engineering teams, subcontractors, and key partnerships to ensure effective delivery of programme objectives

• Plan and oversee engineering activities to ensure products are safe, compliant, integrated, and delivered to cost, quality, and schedule requirements

• Define and allocate resources across the project lifecycle, ensuring efficient use of skills and capabilities within agreed limits

• Resolve integration and technical issues, ensuring solutions are clearly defined, controlled, and aligned across disciplines

• Support team development through skills planning, performance optimisation, and continuous improvement initiatives

• Engage and influence internal and external stakeholders to ensure product solutions meet contractual and technical specifications

Your skills and experience:

• Strong understanding of engineering principles across multiple disciplines, with the ability to interpret and assess technical issues in a wider programme context

• In-depth knowledge of Engineering Planning, Engineering Maturity, and the full Engineering Lifecycle

• Proven experience in Project Management and leading complex technical bids

• Solid understanding of how engineering functions are structured and how multi-disciplinary teams are integrated to deliver programme objectives

• Awareness of customer requirements, industry standards, and best practices within a highly regulated environment

• Demonstrated leadership of large engineering teams (50+ staff), with a focus on coordination, performance management, and cross-functional collaboration

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 Future Air Dominance Systems Mast and Sensor team:

This is a high-impact leadership opportunity for a Portfolio Engineering Manager, responsible for the planning, execution, and delivery of a key engineering programme: the Future Air Dominance Systems Mast and Sensor solution. The role demands oversight of complex, multi-disciplinary teams, contract management, and the assurance of delivery against defined cost, quality, and schedule objectives. You will lead the integration of cross-functional engineering disciplines, engage with both internal and external stakeholders, and drive strategic initiatives involving advanced, next-generation technologies. With direct line management of a team of engineering leaders, this position offers a rare opportunity to shape a vital defence capability at the forefront of innovation.

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 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: 23rd 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.