Senior Engineering Manager in Northampton

Location: Portsmouth, New Malden, or Frimley. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: Circa £85,000 dependent on skills and experience + executive package.

What you’ll be doing:

• Engineering Management of the security sanitisation of the Combat Management System (CMS) software and associated Shared Infrastructure (SI) products on two UK MoD maritime platforms to enable UK MoD to complete export sales.
• Managing engineering processes, people and tools to ensure efficient execution of the sanitisation programme and to successfully achieve quality engineering outputs and deliverables.
• Ensuring delivery of the engineering effort to overall budget and schedule.
• Managing the development & execution of team resource plans including forward load forecasting & assignment of engineers.
• Planning of and preparation for all engineering lifecycle stage gate reviews throughout the project.
• Planning of and preparation for formal customer design reviews, e.g. Preliminary Design Review, Critical Design Reviews, Production Readiness and Test Readiness reviews.
• Ensuring Combat Systems engineering procedures and policies are followed based on own knowledge of Engineering Management best practice and the application of defined BAE Systems processes.
• Full functional leadership and management of engineers within the programme delivery team.

Your skills and experiences:

• Ability to engage autonomously in a customer-facing international environment.
• Knowledge of Engineering Management disciplines as they relate to Combat System design and development.
• Prior experience of managing the people and activities within a medium/large delivery focused software/hardware team.
• An understanding of the requirements and attributes necessary to deliver complex integrated programmes.
• Experience in data sanitisation of complex systems would be advantageous.
• Degree qualified or equivalent experience, likely to be in a technology, engineering, science or IT related discipline.
• Chartered Engineer, or other relevant, equivalent professional registration. Member of appropriate professional institution.

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 CMS and SI Sanitisation Team – within Naval Ships, Combat Systems team:

As a Senior Engineering Manager, you will deliver the sanitisation of CMS and SI products on two UK MoD naval platforms to enable UK MoD to complete international export sales. Lead a multi-disciplinary engineering team to deliver two UK MoD contracts, preparing naval vessels for classified data sanitisation in readiness for export. Ensure engineering activities meet time, cost, and quality targets while enforcing Combat Systems procedures. Manage all aspects of team performance, recruitment, and personnel decisions. This project is innovative and is expected to be highly complex from technical solution, execution and delivery team make up – drawing upon key teams across the Naval Ships business to successfully execute.

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: 6th February 2026 – Interviews will take place w/c 16th 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.