Project Engineering Manager

• Job Title: Project Engineering Manager
• Location: Isle of Wight Cowes, Portsmouth Broad Oak – Minimum 2-3 days onsite
• We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role
• Referral Bonus: £1000
• Grade: GG11
• You’re expected to have completed 12 months in role prior to applying for an advertised vacancy and you should also discuss the internal opportunity with your line manager to ensure sustained business continuity and to further support your career development.
• We know there may be exceptional individual circumstances that impact this, in the first instance please discuss this with your line manager.
• If you don’t feel you can talk to your line manager, you can contact your HRBP.
• PLEASE NOTE: Should you be invited for interview; you acknowledge that the Recruitment team will contact you and your line manager regarding your application for this opportunity.

Role Description

As a Project Engineering Manager, you will provide technical and administrative leadership to a team of engineers and technicians, ensuring the successful delivery of engineering projects to agreed budget, schedule and risk targets. Working closely with stakeholders, you will oversee day-to-day team activities, support project planning and execution, and ensure effective integration with wider engineering functions. The role may involve managing small projects, services, contracts or departments while maintaining technical accountability for team outputs. Applicants should demonstrate competence at Senior Engineer level and possess strongleadership and organisational skills.

Core duties

• Ensure the day to day management and performance/delivery for assigned projects, subcontracts, vendors and/or accounts
• Plans and supervises the work of a staff of lower level engineers to accomplish specific engineering projects
• Directs work assignments, scheduling, and reviews of work in progress
• Handles personnel actions including performance reviews, salary recommendations, and co-ordination of training and development
• Reviews technical feasibility of proposed solutions to engineering problems
• Personally helps solve particularly difficult technical problems

Essential Skills

• Experience leading and influencing engineers within a technical environment, providing direction, coordination and support to deliver engineering objectives
• Proven experience in an engineering management or technical leadership role
• Technical qualification in an engineering or STEM-related discipline
• CEng (or equivalent) or working towards Chartership

The Future Radar team

Join us in shaping the Future of Radar Technology. Building on our heritage of cutting‑edge, world‑leading radar products, we are rapidly evolving our portfolio to enhance existing capabilities while pioneering brand new systems designed to counter emerging and future threats across the battlespace. Through close collaboration with our customers and sustained investment in exceptional talent, we are committed to remaining at the forefront of defence innovation and defining the next generation of radar solutions.

Our workplace in Cowes is an easily accessible commute from Southampton with a regular foot passenger ferry and BAE shuttle service from the ferry terminal to site.

Why BAE Systems?

Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work, this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best. You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family, support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.

A place where everyone can thrive

We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, who are BAE Systems employees and have been in their current role for 12 months or longer.

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: 27th October 2026

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