Senior Engineering Manager

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 [compute, storage & network] 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 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 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.

Additional context

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.

Security and eligibility

Please be aware that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to security and export control restrictions. 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. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting.

Closing Date: 6 February 2026 – Interviews will take place w/c 16 February 2026. We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role.