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Location: Cowes – 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 £70,000 depending on skills and experience
Role Overview
Put yourself into a dynamic Mast Mechanical Design Lead role at the forefront of real-world demands in the defence industry. Alongside ensuring operational excellence for our existing products, there will be the opportunity to develop next-generation radar products to counter emerging threats and contribute to our strategy for new technology. Your day-to-day will be exciting and diverse, applying engineering principles across the entire development lifecycle as you help develop radar systems used by those who serve and protect us.
What you’ll be doing:
1. Provide expert knowledge through substantial work experience to apply principles of systems engineering, ISO 15288, and your specialist mechanical engineering expertise to develop or resolve problems related to complex shipborne structures with integrated sensor configurations.
2. Provide technical and business leadership, potentially leading multiple engineering teams, including management and cost control.
3. Analyze, define, evaluate, plan, and deliver solutions meeting programme, business, and customer requirements.
4. Interface with customers, suppliers, and other functions, acting as an engineering ambassador.
5. Assist in developing engineering capabilities and monitor professional development to meet future discipline requirements.
Your skills and experience:
1. Subject matter expertise in Mechanical Engineering: Structures and Finite Element Analysis (particularly Static and Dynamic Shock and Vibration) or equivalent experience.
2. Ability to generate requirements and translate concepts into production-ready designs.
3. Experience with CAD and Mechanical Engineering Analysis, Modelling, and Simulation tools.
4. Experience leading large-scale complex system designs.
5. Knowledge of various engineering lifecycle models (e.g., Waterfall, Agile).
6. Higher education in a relevant STEM discipline or equivalent experience.
7. Chartered Engineer status or working towards it.
We offer a competitive pension scheme, employee share plans, flexible benefits including health, wellbeing, lifestyle discounts, green car schemes, private health plans, shopping discounts, and potential annual incentives.
The Radar Systems Engineering team:
The Integrated Mast Mechanical Design Lead is a subject matter expert responsible for conceptual development of future shipborne mast structures housing radars, sensors, and ship services.
This role offers opportunities to enhance skills, grow within a global business, and develop technical leadership in contemporary Radar techniques.
Enjoy flexible and hybrid working arrangements. Our Cowes workplace is accessible from Southampton via ferry and shuttle service.
Why BAE Systems?
Join us to make a real difference in an inclusive culture that values diversity, rewards integrity and merit, and empowers you to fulfill your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds, including underrepresented groups such as women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ individuals. If you have a disability or health condition affecting your assessment performance, please discuss reasonable adjustments with your recruiter.
Please note, many roles are subject to security and export control restrictions, including nationality and residency requirements. All applicants must meet the Baseline Personnel Security Standard, with some roles requiring higher security vetting.
We may close this vacancy early if sufficient applications are received. Please apply early if interested.
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