Capability Retrofit & Upgrade Planning Leader

BAE Systems; Lancaster; Hybrid; GBP 54,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense contractor is seeking a Capability Retrofit & Upgrade Planning Leader to drive upgrade strategies for the Typhoon program. This role involves leading a dedicated team, engaging with international customers, and ensuring alignment with operational requirements. The new team is focused on transforming contracted obligations into military capability. A culture that values diversity and inclusion awaits you at BAE Systems.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Enhanced annual leave allowance

Company contributed Share Incentive Plan

Flexible working arrangements

Employee assistance programme

Cycle2work

Employee discounts

Annual incentive eligibility

Qualifications

• Essential skills include understanding of configuration control and maintenance planning techniques.
• Leadership experience and excellent problem-solving skills are crucial for this role.
• Experience in bid management and strong communication abilities are necessary.

Responsibilities

• Lead a team for Typhoon upgrade coordination.
• Engage with global customers on retrofit requirements.
• Mobilize and manage Engineering activities in the business.

Skills

Understanding of configuration control

Understanding of maintenance planning techniques

Leadership experience

Excellent problem-solving skills

Bid management experience

Communication and influencing

Job description

Job title:Capability Retrofit & Upgrade Planning Leader

Location:Warton – We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.

Salary: £54,793 + depending on experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead a pan-Typhoon upgrade team
• Coordinating the alignment of Customer (Core and Export) retrofit requirements and ensuring the demands are aligned with industry capability maturity and the associated upgrade plans contracts and enablers
• Providing and internal interface and central information hub for all internal stakeholders including the Supply chain, for retrofit strategies and Production Investment requirements
• Coordinating the bid management of Embodiment Prep tasks across Core and Export Programmes (including rough order of magnitude estimates across the life cycle).
• Effective mobilisation of embodiment non-recurring Engineering (NRE) activities into the business
• Coordination of retrofit reporting via the Typhoon Capability Insertion Review
• Engagement with worldwide operating customers, EF and NETMA on retrofit requirements and planning
• Negotiations with customers throughout the lifecycle to harmonise evolving requirements aligned to their operational needs

Your skills and experiences:

Essential:

• Understanding of configuration control
• Understanding of maintenance planning techniques
• Leadership experience
• Excellent problem-solving skills
• Bid management experience
• Communication and influencing across internal and external stakeholders (incl engagements with customer & suppliers)

Benefits:

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Typhoon Capability team:

This is an exciting opportunity to join a new and emerging team that will be responsible for the delivery of operational capability to our frontline customers enabling them to meet the ever evolving environment of our Typhoon customers. Based within the Typhoon Capabilities organisation, the team are focused at transforming our contracted obligations into military effectiveness in service. The role is a critical enabler to effective embodiment and fleet planning across all Typhoon customers. The successful candidate will utilise their experience and knowledge of the operational community to contribute to the shaping the strategic intent of our customers embodiment aspirations. This new role will continue to evolve as the depth of understanding across the retrofit community matures within the customer fleets and their operational environments.

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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:8th July 2025

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.