Job Title: Senior Combat Systems Engineer
Salary: up to £49,100 + depending on skills and experience
Location: Scotstoun – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role
What you’ll be doing:
Undertake the physical integration of RCD Combat System (CS) Sub-Systems, liaising with other CS Technical Leads, and the RCD CS Technical Authority team to ensure coherency across the CS, whilst considering the incorporation of whole ship and system requirements.
Monitor and maintain the physical and transverse suite of information for RCD CS Sub-Systems within the appropriate Naval Ships toolsets.
Provide technical input into the Detailed Design team (Stage 2) to ensure that CS compartment layouts are in line with customer endorsed notional arrangements to maintain Compartment Plan Approval (CPA).
Ensure that design rules for the physical integration of CS Sub-Systems within RCD are adhered to, providing technical input to the CS Technical Authority when required.
Engage with the Platform and Naval Architecture disciplines to ensure that the platform system and ship interfaces are maintained to meet Legal and Regulatory Standards.
Provide technical input to Engineering Change Boards with respect to impact of change from T26 to RCD, in regard to the RCD CS Physical Integration.
Creation of Parts and Occurrences for the RCD CS, ensuring that all part attributes are maintained and reflect the sub-system maturity.
Act as the CS Sub-System Specialist with Industry partners and PMO in relation to CS Physical Integration.
Creation of CS Sub-System Cable Schematics, Cable Schedules and Cable Data Sheets, ensuring compliance with E3 guidelines.
Your skills and experiences:
Essential:
Experience of systems physical and functional integration of a Combat Systems
Worked in typically two phases of the product lifecycle in the defence/maritime industry, with sufficient experience of the lifecycle to enable a good understanding of adjacent phases and through life engineering issues.
Experience of liaising with external stakeholders and can work confidently in a customer facing environment,
The ability to coach, mentor & assist others in CS Physical Integration tasks and good people management skills and experience in a multi-disciplined engineering environment.
An Understanding of engineering processes and procedures.
A Batchelor’s degree with honours (or other qualification plus appropriate further learning to honours degree level) in engineering, technology or science (or worked experience)
Working towards being Professionally Registered at IEng / CEng level or membership of a Professional Engineering Institute recognised by the Engineering Council.
Engineers at all levels should possess an academic qualification in Engineering or other related STEM subjects as well as specific (either academic or professional) qualifications and become recognised as Incorporated or Chartered Engineers through an appropriate recognised professional institution.
Engineers are encouraged, and will be supported, to achieve the relevant accreditation.
Preference will be given to candidates who are already professionally registered.
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.
Combat Systems Platform Integration Team:
Our team delivers key Combat Systems Physical Integration activities in line with Naval Ship processes, standards, and quality requirements. Senior team members hold technical accountability for their scope, carrying out audits and quality checks to ensure accurate, compliant, and fully integrated engineering outputs.
The team promotes best practice through coaching and technical leadership, with senior practitioners also deputising for the Combat Systems Principal Engineer or Technical Lead when required.
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 (for example dyslexia, autism, an anxiety disorder etc.) that may affect your performance in certain assessment types, please speak to your recruiter about potential reasonable adjustments.
Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors such as your nationality, any nationalities you may have previously held, and your 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:18th March 2026- interviews w/c 23rd March 2026
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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