Join Our Team as an HVAC Technical Lead!
Location: Portsmouth Naval Base – Enjoy a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements. Speak to your recruiter about the options available for this role.
Salary: Up to £52,000, depending on skills and experience + Overtime
What You'll Be Doing:
As an HVAC Technical Lead, you will play a pivotal role in our dynamic team. Your responsibilities will include:
* Technical Autonomy: Utilize your expertise to provide guidance and advice to fellow professionals within the project/team.
* Prioritization: Use the programme delivery plan to prioritize team activities, ensuring quality expectations are met while maintaining schedule and cost-effectiveness.
* Project Leadership: Act as the focal point for discipline-specific tasks, championing continuous improvement and ensuring compliance with the discipline strategy.
* Engineering Expertise: Deploy high-level skills in engineering toolsets, including CAD and information management tools, to deliver complex design activities.
* Decision Making: Leverage your knowledge to make informed decisions and facilitate problem-solving, guided by policies and business plans.
* Issue Escalation: Effectively escalate complex design issues and advise the Detail Design Delivery Team Lead on proposed technical resolutions.
* Team Development: Identify capability gaps and development needs within the team, contributing to training and development plans.
* Mentorship: Support activities such as skills coaching and mentoring, contributing to management reporting.
Your Skills and Experience:
We’re looking for candidates who possess:
* Experience in large-scale engineering projects or technical roles.
* A breadth and depth of specialist technical knowledge, along with broad experience in processes, data, systems, and the business environment.
* HNC/HND qualification in a technology, engineering, or science-related discipline, or equivalent experience.
* HVAC or Auxiliary Systems experience is preferred, along with considerable experience in an engineering or technical role.
* Preferred experience in Ship Building.
Benefits:
We offer a competitive benefits package that includes:
* A robust pension scheme.
* Employee share plans.
* An extensive range of flexible, discounted health, wellbeing, and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme and private health plans.
* Shopping discounts and potential eligibility for an annual incentive.
About the HVAC Team:
The BAE Systems Design Services HVAC Team consists of 15 talented engineers dedicated to developing and delivering HVAC design guidance, testing, commissioning, and fault finding for all current naval platforms based in Portsmouth Naval Base.
As the HVAC Technical Lead, you will support a defined range of detail design activities, ensuring all relevant processes and quality requirements are met while providing advice and support to operations and other functions. This is an exciting opportunity for growth and progression within a dynamic team facing varied challenges.
Why BAE Systems?
At BAE Systems, you’ll have the chance to make a real difference. We foster an inclusive culture that values diversity of thought, rewards integrity and merit, and empowers you to reach your full potential. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and strive to make our recruitment processes as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance in certain assessments, please discuss potential reasonable adjustments with your recruiter.
Important Note: Many roles at BAE Systems are subject to security and export control restrictions. Factors such as nationality, previous nationalities, and place of birth may affect your eligibility for certain roles. All applicants must meet the Baseline Personnel Security Standard, with many roles requiring higher levels of National Security Vetting, typically necessitating 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK.
Closing Date: 1st December 2025
We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications. If you’re interested, please submit your application as soon as possible!
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