Principal Sourcing Specialist- BAE Systems Recruitment Centre- via AMS
Job Title: Hardware Team Leader
Location: Rochester, Kent.
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 is supporting the production program demand
* Providing technical governance and ensuring adherence to company processes
* Leading cost and performance trade-offs
* Control Account Management (CAM)
Essential Skills and Experience
* Able to demonstrate high performance and achievement in leadership and management of engineering teams through a full product development lifecycle
* Proven experience and 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; focus 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.
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 that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.
Many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as nationality, any nationalities previously held, and 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: 7th November 2025.
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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