Job title: Radar Mechanical Design Lead
Location: Isle of Wight - Cowes - minimum 2 days onsite a week
Salary: Up to £85,700 (dependent on skills and experience) Part time & accruing hours available. Please let us know if you would like to discuss these options.
Role description
This is a senior mechanical engineering role focused on leading the design and development of complex mechanical systems for a cutting‑edge technology demonstrator. The successful candidate will act as the mechanical design authority, ensuring robust, compliant solutions throughout the full engineering lifecycle. With strong expertise in structural design, thermal systems, or other key mechanical domains, they will guide both project‑specific activities and support the broader engineering community with technical leadership and cross‑functional collaboration.
Core duties
- Carry out detailed mechanical design and analysis activities to support the development of a complex new product
- Collaborate with cross‑functional teams to ensure mechanical solutions align with overall system requirements
- Act as the Mechanical Design Authority, providing expert‑level input across the full product lifecycle
- Apply subject matter expertise in key mechanical areas such as thermal management, structural integrity, or material selection
- Ensure design compliance with relevant industry standards, regulations, and internal processes
- Support design reviews, technical assessments, and the implementation of design changes as needed
Essential skills
- Demonstrable subject matter expertise in at least one area of Mechanical Engineering (e.g. thermal systems, structures, CFD, FEA, or propulsion), with the ability to provide authoritative technical input
- Proven experience in complex mechanical design, including the design, build, integration, and testing of advanced mechanical systems or products
- Ability to collate, interpret, and translate requirements into effective mechanical design solutions throughout the engineering lifecycle
- Familiarity with modelling and simulation tools used for mechanical analysis, such as those assessing structural behaviour under static and dynamic loads
- Comfortable working within engineering governance frameworks, ensuring compliance with relevant standards, processes, and best practices
- Ideally hold Chartered Engineer status or have equivalent experience and qualifications in a mechanical engineering discipline
Benefits
As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers 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.
Closing Date: 22nd April 2026.
