Senior Systems Engineer

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Systems Engineer

Location: 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 £48,000 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Apply Systems Thinking to complex system challenges
• Stakeholder requirements elicitation, analysis and management to ensure systems engineering artefacts are developed to satisfy stakeholder needs
• Understand and apply strategies around system development across a typical lifecycle, from requirement elicitation through to qualification, including integration, verification and validation activities
• Identify system emergent properties, trade-offs, optimisation, risk management and verification activities
• Liaise with multiple internal and external stakeholders to ensure effective and efficient engagement in support of system realisation
• Work with multiple Asset Management Service Hubs to tailor and deliver the Systems Engineering capabilities and services as required
• Utilise Model Based Systems Engineering Tools (e.g. Enterprise Architect) to capture system definition
• Own and deliver packages of work autonomously and concurrently manage a small team when required
• Mentor and support junior Engineers including secondary line management responsibility

Your skills and experiences:

• Experience of V-model or the full product lifecycle
• Systems Engineering experience and exposure to the ISO 15288 lifecycle
• Experience of Model based Systems Engineering and Digital Enabling Technologies
• An awareness of marine/ship systems would be desirable but not compulsory, for example: HVAC, Fuel Systems, Gas Turbine Services, Fresh Water Services, Sea Water Services, Black and Grey Water Systems, Bilge and Sullage Systems, Gas Systems, Intake and Exhaust Systems, Chilled Water Systems, Lub Oil and Hydraulics
• Be qualified to degree level, or equivalent, in Systems Engineering or a related discipline; Be a member of a relevant professional body, and be working towards a Chartered Engineer (CEng) level, with an ambition of obtaining professional registration in the future

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:

The Asset Management organisation within BAE Systems Maritime & Land Defence Solutions operates a Service Hub model. Service Hubs are responsible for providing appropriately trained and experienced personnel, standardised toolsets, processes and datasets to support projects.

The Warship Technical Authority Service Hub covers the engineering discipline. We support the Royal Navy’s Type 45 Destroyers, Type 23 Frigates, Queen Elizabeth Class Carriers, Minehunters and Off-Shore Patrol Vessels in the UK.

Additionally, we provide engineering expertise to International Naval Support contracts in the Middle East. Further we deliver Internal and external engineering consultancy projects with our multi discipline engineering hubs, ranging from Systems Engineering, Combat Systems, Power and Propulsion Systems, and Naval Architects. We further explore how we can expand the business through our Future Support team, targeted towards bringing in new customers, and/or engineering projects.

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: 20th January 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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