Job Title: Combat Systems Hub Discipline Lead Engineer

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

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

What you’ll be doing:

Provide overarching technical support and guidance across Combat Systems Engineering activities for multiple Asset Management projects. This includes mentoring junior and senior engineers and offering specific technical input where needed, working alongside project Combat Systems Leads

Lead a team of approximately 15–20 engineers (6–10 direct reports), ensuring business objectives are communicated effectively and resource demands are managed across projects

Act as the focal point for all line managers within the Combat Systems Engineering Discipline to ensure effective and consistent delivery of personnel management activities

Ensure Combat Systems Discipline maintains the right level of trained, professional engineers, including appropriate subject matter experts, in accordance with the demands placed by the WTA Delivery Leads

Manage resource movement within the WTA and the wider BAE Systems organisation, to ensure engineers obtain the necessary development and experience, whilst enabling projects to deliver

Demonstrate extensive and detailed knowledge of platform combat systems. Leverage this expertise to provide leadership and mentoring to engineers and projects as required

Liaising with the wider BAE Systems organisation to grow and maintain links and relationships with wider network of expertise

Represent the Warship Technical Authority Mechanical Discipline at internal reviews and management meetings, including management of the relationship with the Combat Systems Engineering Function within Maritime & Land

Your skills and experiences:

A personable and professional approach that positively influences the team dynamic

A considerable background in people and capability management in a complex engineering organisation

Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills across engineering, functional, and programme boundaries

Experienced in growing team capabilities through individual development and mentoring

Experience of the Management of change and embodiment on complex platforms

Skilled at problem solving to enable decisions and prioritisation, when dealing with unexpected demands and ambiguous information

Effective at building and maintaining a network of relationships in support of developing the technical expertise of the discipline

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.

Warship Technical Authority team:

The Combat Systems Hub Discipline Lead Engineer is responsible for supporting and resourcing the day-to-day delivery of engineering output from the Asset Management Warship Technical Authority (WTA), in alignment with the agreed Work Breakdown Structure (WBS). The role supports the Asset Management WTA Capability Lead in ensuring activity across the Combat Systems Hub the Discipline is coherently resourced and executed

The primary responsibility is the generation and maintenance of a robust, suitably qualified and experienced Mechanical Engineering Discipline. This is enabled through development, training and providing experiences to a Discipline comprising of approximately 45 engineers, ranging from a Principal level to Early Careers

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 19th January 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.

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