Systems Engineering Team Leader

BAE Systems.; Rochester; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense and aerospace company in the UK is seeking a Systems Engineering Team Leader in Rochester. You will lead a team, manage project deliverables, and ensure the quality and efficiency of engineering processes. Ideal candidates should have significant team management experience and familiarity with various engineering tools and methodologies. The role offers competitive benefits including a pension scheme and health benefits.

Benefits

Competitive pension scheme

Employee share plans

Flexible health and wellbeing benefits

Private health plans

Shopping discounts

Potential annual incentive

Qualifications

• Proven experience leading and managing a system engineering team of six or more people.
• Experience in assigning work packages and balancing quality, schedule and budget.
• Experience in more than one aspect of the systems engineering lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate to understand team work packages and impact on project milestones.
• Establish necessary team size while balancing strengths and development needs.
• Facilitate dependencies and help for team progress.

Skills

Leadership of system engineering team

Work package assignment

Systems engineering lifecycle knowledge

Familiarity with engineering tools (DOORS, Polarion, etc.)

Education

Degree in Systems Engineering, Engineering or Science

Tools

MATLAB

Simulink

DOORS

Siemens Polarion

Enterprise Architect

CAMEO

Job description

Job Title

Job Title: Systems Engineering Team Leader

Location

Location: Rochester

Salary

Salary: Up to £65,000 dependent on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing

• Collaboration to understand the packages of work for your team including how these contribute to milestones and/or project success
• Establishing the necessary team size, whilst balancing strengths, skillset, experience and development needs of your team
• Facilitating dependencies or requesting help and enablers for the team to progress
• Contributing to strategy and facilitating implementation of initiatives
• Supporting team members wellbeing and career development

Your skills and experiences

• Proven experience leading and managing a system engineering team of six or more people in relevant product markets
• Proven experience in assigning work packages and leading teams to balance quality, schedule and budget
• Proven experience in more than one aspect of the systems engineering lifecycle
• Familiarity with system engineering tools such as DOORS, Siemens Polarion, Enterprise Architect, CAMEO, MATLAB and/or Simulink.
• A degree or equivalent qualification in a relevant Scientific/Engineering subject (e.g. Systems Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Aerospace, Physics or Mathematics)

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 Systems Engineering Team

You’ll be part of the development and supply of products across a diverse mix of commercial and military platforms; Head Up and Head Worn Displays, Safety Critical Pilot Control and Flight Control Systems. We encourage our Systems Engineers to gain a breadth of knowledge across these domains to become subject matter experts in one or more product domain, or systems engineering specialism.

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

Closing Date: 6th November 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.

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Application process

When applying for this role you will be redirected to BAE systems careers site where you will be required to:

• Register an account (this is optional, you can apply as a guest)
• Provide contact information
• Upload your cv
• Complete a short diversity & inclusion questionnaire

When asked source type, please select "job board advertisement" then "the IET / E+T Jobs"