Project Engineering Manager – Modelling & Simulation in Portsmouth

Location: Portsmouth Broad Oak. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements. Please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Circa £68,000 depending on skills and experience.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead multi-disciplinary engineering teams to deliver training system upgrades, developments, and in-service support.
• Plan, track, and monitor engineering work to meet cost, schedule, and quality commitments.
• Manage engineering resources, priorities, and technical risks across the project lifecycle.
• Ensure compliance with engineering governance, lifecycle processes, and contractual obligations.
• Work closely with Project Managers, Design Authorities, customers, and suppliers.
• Provide regular status reporting, forecasts, and engineering metrics.
• Drive a positive engineering culture focused on quality, transparency, and continuous improvement.

Your skills and experiences:

• Strong engineering leadership – able to lead and motivate multi-disciplinary teams to deliver complex outcomes.
• Delivery focus and accountability – committed to meeting cost, schedule, quality, and contractual commitments.
• Structured and transparent approach to engineering management – strong planning, tracking, and risk management discipline.

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.

The Sub-Surface Simulation team:

The team delivers synthetic training solutions for a range of defence customers. The work involves maintaining legacy capability while also introducing new technologies and upgrades. This creates a dynamic environment where the team works collaboratively to solve complex integration challenges and maintains a strong focus on quality, safety and customer outcomes.

Overall, this role offers the challenge of delivering complex, mission-critical systems within demanding cost, schedule, and quality constraints, while working on technology that directly supports front-line defence capability.

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 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: 25th 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.