Senior Team Lead – Detail Design

Job Description

Job Title: Senior Team Lead – Detail Design

Location: Halifax, NS

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead and manage a team of Technical Leads, Senior Designers, Detail Designers and Associate Detail Designers
• Provide specialist engineering expertise to organize and coordinate significant engineering activities, ensuring design objectives are met while maintaining quality, safety, and cost standards
• Serve as the main point of contact with clients addressing design-related concerns, ensuring smooth project execution, and maintaining strong working relationships
• Assume responsibility for setting the strategy and direction of the team. Manage decision-making, budget allocation, resourcing, and performance reviews, contributing to project delivery and business success
• Ensure all designs align with company standards and industry regulations, continuously assessing and improving processes for optimal results
• Manage risks, budgets, and resources within the design process, ensuring that technical objectives are achieved while maintaining cost-efficiency

Your skills and experiences:

• Proven track record of managing large-scale engineering projects
• Strong leadership and people management skills, with experience in performance coaching, motivation, and development
• Customer-focused with excellent communication skills, and the ability to influence and negotiate effectively
• Ability to interpret and communicate technical instructions to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Possess a degree in Marine Engineering, Naval Architecture, or related field

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a generous annual leave allowance and paid sick leave. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, group health, dental, and vision benefits as well as life insurance – you may also be eligible for an annual bonus.

In addition, you will also be entitled to a Registered Retirement Savings Plan (RRSP) company match of up to 5% of your annual salary.

The Detail Design team:

This is an exciting opportunity to lead a team within Canada’s River Class Destroyer program. As a Senior Team Lead in Detail Design, you will lead a team of Technical Leads and Detail Designers overseeing complex engineering tasks, ensuring quality and cost objectives are met, and preparing for a future management role. You will take on both technical and managerial responsibilities, acting as a key liaison between clients, contractors, and subcontractors while driving the success of the design process.

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: March 5th, 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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