Engineering Manager - Power & Propulsion

Location: Scotstoun, other UK BAE sites can be considered – hybrid working with quarterly to monthly travel to Scotstoun or other UK sites.

Salary: Up to £64,500 depending on skills and experience + bonus scheme

Who we are:

Join BAE Systems and you’ll be part of something bigger. As a valued member of our global colleague network, you’ll bring your unique skills and perspectives to help pioneer progress and protect what matters most. You’ll be trusted to play your part in delivering the advanced, technology-led defence, aerospace and security solutions of tomorrow, shaping a safer future, for all of us.

Role description:

You’ll provide technical leadership, management and engineering expertise across the River Class Destroyer (RCD) Programme’s Power and Propulsion discipline, delivering complex scope involving new technologies, design changes, and collaboration with customers, suppliers, and key programme stakeholders. You’ll be responsible for delivering the power and propulsion system to cost, quality, schedule, and performance requirements, while coordinating multidisciplinary engineering teams, resolving technical conflicts, and ensuring the successful integration of systems and capabilities across the platform.

Core duties:

• Leading delivery of the Power & Propulsion discipline, ensuring design maturity, requirements compliance, and effective system, compartment, and spatial integration to time, quality and cost
• Managing suppliers throughout the lifecycle, from technical specification and contract award to design review, integration, and delivery
• Driving design development and programme execution, overseeing 3D model reviews, layout development, issue resolution, and milestone achievement
• Maintaining delivery plans, managing risks and performance, and providing clear governance and stakeholder engagement across the programme
• Liaising with internal and external stakeholders to develop the design through the design lifecycle, including but not limited to the detailed design team, build yard and prime contractor
• Manage, maintain and be accountable for detailed plan, including assigning tasks to the team, monitoring and reporting on progress and performance against the plan
• Managing, coaching, and developing a high-performing team of Engineers, fostering an inclusive culture, driving continuous improvement, and ensuring professional standards

Essential skills:

• You have a good understanding of power generation and propulsion system design and integration with strong project management, performance measurement, and risk management skills
• You can manage high-performing teams through goal alignment, coaching, talent development, change leadership, and accountability, managing and maintaining scope to a plan to time, quality and cost and report against it
• You can deliver complex engineering solutions to demanding specifications, including resolving conflicts, managing trade-offs, and achieving successful outcomes through collaboration and negotiation
• You hold strong stakeholder engagement and influencing skills, with the ability to communicate effectively with internal technical teams, IPT leads, and customers
• Degree qualified in Mechanical Engineering (or relevant discipline), with Chartered Engineer (CEng) status, or working towards professional registration

The Power and Propulsion Team:

Join a high-performing team of qualified engineers trusted to deliver on some of the most critical systems within the River Class Destroyer Programme. Taking ownership of the entire propulsion train, from gas turbines and gearboxes to shaft lines, couplings and sheaths, working independently in a fast-paced environment, supported by experts and responsible for equipment that is fundamental to the success of the ship.

Why BAE Systems?

Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work, this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best. You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family, support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.

A place where everyone can thrive:

We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.

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: 16th July 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.