Senior Change Management Engineer-Marine

Job Title: Senior Change Management Engineer – Marine

Location: Portsmouth Naval Base – Minimum 3 days on site

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 £50,000 (dependent on skills and experience)

Who we are:

Join BAE Systems and you’ll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you’ll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You’ll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow, shaping a safer future, for all of us.

From the depths of the ocean, to the far reaches of space, there’s no limit to where a career at BAE Systems could take you.

Role Description:

Responsible for leading and coordinating engineering change activities to deliver safe, compliant and effective platform capability. The role ensures changes are managed through robust governance, effective stakeholder engagement and clear communication, enabling informed decision-making and alignment with industry standards. Working across a multi-disciplinary environment, the postholder will influence design, configuration and acceptance outcomes, providing oversight throughout the change lifecycle. The role requires strong collaboration, proactive problem solving and the ability to balance technical, operational and programme priorities. This position offers the opportunity to shape engineering change practices, drive continuous improvement and contribute to the successful delivery of complex platform programmes.

Core duties:

• Drive coordination of engineering change activity, ensuring changes are effectively managed, governed and progressed through clear oversight of risks, dependencies and delivery status.
• Ensure engineering change is robustly controlled by maintaining accurate plans and tracking tools that provide clear visibility of progress, impacts and decisions.
• Enable delivery of design change by contributing to development, configuration control, governance and acceptance activities, ensuring outcomes align with safety and operational requirements.
• Act as a key point of coordination across stakeholders, driving alignment, facilitating decisions and ensuring engineering queries are resolved effectively and efficiently.
• Support planning and execution of design change initiatives, contributing to reviews, readiness assessments and progress monitoring to drive timely and successful implementation.
• Strengthen team delivery by coordinating outputs, identifying process improvements, supporting colleagues and contributing to risk management and continuous improvement activities.

Essential Skills:

• You’ll have a sound understanding of engineering change, configuration management and systems engineering, with the ability to apply structured approaches to manage and control change effectively
• You’ll have excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with confidence in influencing decisions and clearly presenting technical information to varied audiences
• You’ll have experience using planning, reporting and engineering tools to manage delivery, track performance and support robust governance of engineering activities
• You’ll hold an engineering qualification (HNC, HND, Degree or equivalent experience) and be working towards, or have an interest in achieving, professional registration

The Warship Technical Authority (WTA) Service Hub:

This position sits within the Warship Technical Authority (WTA) Service Hub. The WTA aims to deliver Naval whole ship, systems, equipment and change management support.

As Senior Change Management Engineer within the WTA, you will provide engineering support to programmes and projects within Warship Support. Such programmes/projects include Royal Navy surface ship support contracts, International naval support contracts, and Internal and external engineering consultancy projects.

Why BAE Systems?

Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work, this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best. You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family, support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.

A place where everyone can thrive:

We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.

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: 28thSeptember 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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