Engineering Manager

Job Title: Engineering Manager

Location: Cowes, Portsmouth, and Great Baddow. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Up to £65,000 depending on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Ability to influence Engineering decisions across the full lifecycle and exposure to a broad product and customer portfolio


• Management and development of an Engineering team, supporting individual career progression across a wide career demographic


• Leadership across a multidisciplinary engineering team, tackling complex technical problems across an exciting and diverse group of projects/products


• Responsible for governance, planning and delivery of the Engineering programme


• Ensure capability and skills development, performance optimisation & maximisation and efficient use of engineering and functional resources


• Support to new bids and opportunities by coordinating Engineering estimates, technical proposals and bid reviews

Your skills and experiences:

• People leadership and project/programme management experience


• Technical background with an aptitude for rationalising and solving complex problems


• Strong internal and external stakeholder management and organisational skills


• Degree level or equivalent (STEM preferred)


• Defence experience desirable

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Radar team:

The Radar business is an exciting and broad product portfolio, with a diverse range of customers and stakeholders worldwide. Our business provides complex products and support services across the entire Engineering Lifecycle from cutting edge technology development through to maintaining excellence through support. This role will have a pivotal influence on the management and delivery of key Engineering programmes across this wide portfolio.

Radar is a growing team and with that brings ample opportunity for future career development and progression, not only for the individual but the ability to influence the development of a directly reporting Engineering team.

As the world has evolved, so has the way we work. Our working approach, will enable you to have flexibility with your working hours, depending on your role and location. This could include accruing hours as well as flexibility around start and finish times, ensuring you can balance life at work, on site and life at home.

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, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also 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 working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation.

Closing Date: 18th September 2024

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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