Senior Configuration Engineer in Maidstone

Location: Rochester

Salary: Competitive

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. From the depths of the ocean, to the far reaches of space, there’s no limit to where a career at BAE Systems could take you.

Role Description: The Senior Configuration Engineer will ensure that the company configuration management procedures are implemented across all products in a considered and consistent manner, in accordance with company procedures.

Core duties:

• Ensure that Configuration Management (CM) requirements are disseminated across all contracted projects
• Liaise with Customers to define, clarify, and correctly interpret CM specifications and requirements
• Proactively advise and support programs on all aspects of CM, being the interface for documentation management and control
• Provide bid support through the generation of estimates in accordance with CM estimating metrics
• Regularly review resource requirement, project planning and contribute to process improvements
• Manage and maintain project status data within your area of responsibility

Essential Skills:

• An applied understanding of the key elements of Configuration Management (CM) and be able to support audits
• Capability of applying industry CM standards requirements
• Conversant with CMII process model
• Ability to apply configuration identification techniques as to provide guidance to project and engineering teams
• Demonstrable expertise in configuration status accounting
• Knowledge of engineering, manufacturing, and full project lifecycles

The Configuration Management Team: As part of this role you will work closely with Engineers and Engineering Project Managers to ensure that Configuration Management (CM) requirements are disseminated across all contracted projects, and they are documented and maintained in an appropriate Configuration Management Plan in accordance with industry standards.

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: 8th April 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.