Upgrade your career as a Hardware Team Leader at Free-Work UK.
Location: Rochester, Kent.
Base pay range
Salary: Circa £60,000.
What you’ll be doing
* Managerial and technical leadership of an electronics design team
* Work package management; cost, schedule, risk and opportunities
* Ensuring the engineering team supports the production program demand
* Providing technical governance and ensuring adherence to company processes
* Leading cost and performance trade‑offs
* Control Account Management (CAM)
Essential
* Able to demonstrate high performance and achievement in leadership and management of engineering teams through a full product development lifecycle
* Proven experience/knowledge of cost and planning management tools, optimising solutions and minimising impacts from dependencies/product design and work package control
* Experience of design and identifying improvements to working practices and team skill development, along with root‑cause and target areas of improvement focusing on failure reduction and MDBF
* Knowledge of supporting a production program
Desirable
* Experience of PLD / FPGA design
* Requirements management tools, such as DOORS
* Work‑package management tools, such as MSP, JIRA
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 Hardware Team
As a Hardware Team Leader, you will lead a team of highly skilled and experienced hardware engineers responsible for supporting our production programs within products such as Helmet Mounted & Head‑Up Displays, Mission Computers, Flight Controls, Active Inceptors and other associated safety‑critical technology. This role offers an opportunity to work on innovative projects as part of a very experienced diverse team, with the view to progressing your career in this industry.
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 empowers you to fulfil your potential. We welcome people from all backgrounds and want to make our recruitment processes as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about reasonable adjustments.
Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to security and export‑control restrictions. These restrictions may affect eligibility based on nationality, previous nationalities, and place of birth. All applicants must achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Some roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting, typically requiring 5 to 10 years of continuous UK residency.
Closing Date
7th November 2025. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications.
Seniority level
Entry level
Employment type
Full‑time
Job function
Engineering and Information Technology
Industries
Human Resources Services
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