Lead Integration Engineer

Location: Warton – Onsite

Salary: £56,766+ depending on experience

Responsibilities

• Providing engineering leadership across the team in producing and assessing Platform Shaping designs and studies in response to the Customer requirements.
• Leading multidisciplinary trade studies of aircraft design features and options; from planning and stakeholder engagement through execution and reporting to enable effective technical decision making.
• Gathering and challenging technical evidence in a structured manner to support effective and timely Platform Shaping decision making e.g. basis of estimates, engineering assessments, assumptions, risks, issues.
• Performing Engineering Integration activities such as coordinating technical reviews, capturing technical risks & opportunities, and managing & tracking of critical features.
• Leading engineering planning and management of technical integration activities and ensure their coherency across all stakeholders.
• Leading engineering reviews and briefings with significant Customer facing aspects.
• Developing good working relationships with other team members & external stakeholders.
• Having line management of other team members.

Qualifications

• A degree in a STEM subject or equivalent relevant experience.
• Experience working across a broad engineering lifecycle.
• Experience of engineering processes, standards and governance.
• Aerodynamics or aircraft structures experience.

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 GCAP Platform Shaping Team

The GCAP Platform Shaping Team is a trilateral team with members from the UK, Japan and Italy, responsible for defining and delivering the overall physical air vehicle design. The team is key to ensuring a coherent product, balancing multidisciplinary inputs and challenging requirements. This role will provide engineering management support within the Integration Team assisting the on-time delivery of engineering milestones, reviews & decisions and overall aircraft design maturation. This role involves working collaboratively across multiple disciplines, teams and organisations to help define and deliver a next generation combat air capability for the partner nations.

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

Thursday 5th 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.