Join Our Team as a Lead Systems Engineer / Team Lead!
Location: Rochester
Salary: Up to £65,000, based on your skills and experience. We’re excited to recruit for a variety of technical and team-leading positions!
What You’ll Be Doing:
* Mentorship: Guide and support less experienced engineers, fostering their wellbeing and career growth.
* Collaboration: Work together to uncover innovative technical solutions and share valuable recommendations.
* Strategic Contribution: Play a key role in project strategy and facilitate the implementation of initiatives.
* Project Insight: Understand the scope, size, and timing of work packages, ensuring they contribute to project success.
* Resource Management: Assess team size and skillset needs, providing regular updates and recommendations to project and functional engineering managers.
* Dependency Management: Enable necessary dependencies and facilities across the team.
* Business Support: Create new estimates for bids and maintain schedules and budgets for ongoing projects.
Your Skills and Experiences:
Essential:
* Proven experience in the systems engineering domain and product lifecycle.
* Familiarity with systems engineering tools such as DOORS, Siemens Polarion, Enterprise Architect, CAMEO, MATLAB, and/or Simulink.
* Experience leading a team and making impactful decisions from both technical and managerial perspectives.
* A degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant Scientific/Engineering field (e.g., Systems Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Aerospace, Physics, or Mathematics).
Desirable:
* Experience managing a systems engineering team in relevant product markets.
* Background in integration, testing, and/or verification of real-time and/or safety-related systems.
* Understanding of information assurance, cyber security, and environmental impact aspects related to real-time embedded engineering products.
Why Join Us?
Benefits:
We offer a competitive pension scheme, employee share plans, and a wide range of flexible health, wellbeing, and lifestyle benefits. Enjoy perks like a green car scheme, private health plans, and shopping discounts. You may also be eligible for an annual incentive!
The Systems Engineering Team:
We’re on the lookout for experienced and dynamic individuals to lead coordination and strategy for executing systems engineering on multiple projects. You’ll support the functional department and projects through work package scope, scheduling, resources, and strategy. Collaborate with Engineering Project Managers to understand both near-term (3-6 months) and long-term (18-24 months) work plans. Lead a talented team of engineers to deliver on your plans and estimates!
Why BAE Systems?
This is your chance to make a real difference! Join an inclusive culture that values diverse perspectives, 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, 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 your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your place of birth can 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:
18th February 2026
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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