HVAC Technical Lead

BAE Systems; Bosham; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 52,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading aerospace and defense company in the UK is seeking an HVAC Technical Lead to provide technical guidance and support for engineering projects, ensuring quality and compliance with standards. You will work within a dynamic team and have opportunities for growth. Requires HNC/HND in a relevant field and HVAC experience. The role offers a competitive salary up to £52,000 plus benefits including a comprehensive pension scheme.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible health and lifestyle benefits

Shopping discounts

Potential annual incentive

Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale engineering projects or technical roles.
• Broad specialist technical knowledge and familiarity with processes and systems.
• Completion of vocational training or equivalent experience required.

Responsibilities

• Prioritize team activities ensuring schedule and cost-effective working.
• Act as project focal point for discipline specific tasks.
• Deploy expertise in engineering toolsets to deliver complex design activities.

Skills

HVAC experience

Large-scale engineering projects

Technical problem-solving

Mentoring and coaching

Education

HNC/HND in technology, engineering or science

Tools

CAD

Information management tools

Job description

Responsibilities

• Works with a high degree of technical autonomy, using expertise to provide advice and guidance to other professionals within project/team.
• Using the programme delivery plan, prioritise team activities to ensure schedule and cost‑effective working is delivered alongside quality expectations.
• Act as a project focal point for discipline specific tasks, championing continuous improvement, ensuring best practices are adopted, and ensuring overall compliance to the discipline strategy.
• Deploying high expertise in engineering toolsets including CAD and information management tools to deliver complex design activities through to completion.
• Use knowledge and experience of the discipline to make decisions and facilitate problem‑solving guided by policies, procedures and business plan.
• Able to effectively escalade where appropriate complex design issues and advise Detail Design Delivery Team Lead on proposed technical resolutions where there is an impact to predicted programme delivery plan.
• Advise Detail Design Team Lead and Technical Specialist of capability gaps and development needs of team so they can be addressed using training and development plans.
• May act as an informal or indirect leadership resource, supporting activities such as skills coaching, mentoring and contributing to management reporting.

About the Team

The BAE Systems Design Services HVAC Team consists of 15 engineers, that develop and delivering HVAC design guidance's, testing, commissioning and fault finding for all current naval platforms based in Portsmouth Naval Base.

Profile

HVAC Technical Lead, you will have the skills and experience for your primary role of supporting a defined range of detail design activities in line with all relevant processes and quality requirements, supplying advice and support to operations and other functions and ensuring defined objectives are achieved whilst continually maintaining quality and service requirements. This is an exciting new opportunity, with opportunities of progression and growth within the business. It is also an opportunity to be a part of a dynamic team with varied work and different challenges .

Why BAE Systems?

BAE Systems 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.

Experience & Qualifications

• Experience of large‑scale engineering projects or technical roles.
• Requires a breadth and depth of specialist technical knowledge and a broad experience of processes, data, systems and the business environment.
• HNC/HND qualified in technology, engineering or science related discipline. Requires completion of vocational training (Apprenticeship, Vocational Qualifications) or the equivalent experience.
• HVAC experience or Auxiliary Systems preferred, Considerable experience in engineering or technical role.
• Preferred ship building experience.

Security & Vetting

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.

Salary & Benefits

Salary: up to £52,000 depending on skills and experience, plus overtime. 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.