Engineering Manager

BAE Systems; Rochester; On-site; GBP 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defence, security, and aerospace company in the UK is seeking an Engineering Manager (Qualification) to develop processes for engineering excellence. Your role will include managing teams, engaging with stakeholders, and contributing to strategy while ensuring compliance with security standards. The ideal candidate will have a background in Electronic Hardware and demonstrable leadership abilities. This position offers a competitive salary with bonuses and a variety of benefits.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible health and lifestyle benefits

Qualifications

• Experience in managing Electronic Hardware design and development lifecycles.
• Ability to deliver information effectively at all levels.
• Skills in inspiring and developing teams.

Responsibilities

• Developing engineering processes for EMC and Environmental Qualification.
• Maintaining UKAS accreditations and improving capabilities.
• Providing input into Electronics Hardware engineering strategies.
• Nurturing team development and performance reviews.

Skills

Managing large teams

Demonstrable leadership skills

Engaging and negotiating with stakeholders

Electronic Hardware engineering background

Education

Relevant qualification in Electronic Hardware

Job description

Overview

Job Title: Engineering Manager (Qualification)

Salary: £80,000 per annum + annual bonuses

What you’ll be doing

• Developing purpose-fit processes for engineering excellence, particularly in the area of EMC and Environmental Qualification and design proving activities. Your insights will lead to streamlined operations, enhanced craftsmanship, and vendors, raising the bar in tool improvement.
• Demonstration of business acumen with an emphasis on delivering internal qualification projects, maintaining and developing a profitable external customer base, maintaining UKAS accreditations and continuously improving capabilities.
• Providing valuable input into our Electronics Hardware engineering strategies; you'll help us optimize cost, schedule, and quality, ensuring that best practices are integrated seamlessly.
• Inspiring both teams and the larger enterprise to embrace innovative paradigms, to bridge disciplines and influence a culture of excellence.
• Nurturing and developing your team; driving a workforce, enhancing skills and taking on new tasks; conducting Performance Development Reviews.
• Ensuring correct implementation and use of resources, including the recruitment of experienced engineers, undergraduate placement students and graduates.
• Playing a key role in our estimating and development strategies to support our Technical Bid Review Process.

Your skills and experiences

• Managing large teams or teams of teams through Electronic Hardware design and development lifecycles.
• Demonstrable leadership skills to drive growth.
• Ability to engage and negotiate with stakeholders, being able to deliver information at all levels and influence decision making.
• Electronic Hardware engineering background with a relevant qualification or experience.

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.

The Engineering Team

You will provide functional support to our Engineering Teams within Electronics Hardware Engineering, having a vital role in continuous improvement, enhancing processes, inspiring teams and driving efficiency in one of the world's leading defence, security and aerospace companies. You will play a key part in managing a function responsible for EMC and Environmental design proving activities for internal projects and external customers enabling the development and supply of products across a diverse mix of commercial and military platforms; Head Up and Head Worn Displays, Safety Critical Pilot Control and Flight Control Systems.

This will give you a direct influence on leading process innovation, propelling excellence, and leading teams, whilst driving a culture of creativity and collaboration.

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

Closing Date: 23rd February 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.