Project Engineering Manager

• Job Title: Project Engineering Manager
• Location: Cowes, Portsmouth, Great Baddow – Minimum 2-3 days onsite
• Referral Scheme: £1000
• Grade: GG12
• 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 exceptionalindividual 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 will be giving consent for the Recruitment Team to contact you and your line manager regarding your application for this opportunity.

Role description

You will lead and coordinate multidisciplinary engineering resources across projects, ensuring effective planning, resource forecasting, risk management and delivery. Working closely with customers, suppliers and internal teams, you will oversee engineering work packages, drive collaboration, maintain compliance and safety, and ensure projects meet cost, quality, schedule and performance requirements.

Core duties

• Leading engineering activities for current and future products, ensuring quality customer engagement and delivery
• Planning, forecasting and allocating engineering resources, supporting capability growth and succession planning
• Developing and maintaining project schedules, collaborating closely with project controls and delivery teams
• Managing project budgets, engineering risks and mitigation activities to support successful outcomes
• Building strong relationships with customers and stakeholders through reviews and ongoing collaboration
• Contributing to bid activities by coordinating engineering inputs, estimates and technical reviews

Essential skills

• Degree, HNC or HND qualified, or equivalent engineering experience and expertise
• Proven engineering management experience leading multidisciplinary teams and complex work packages
• Strong understanding of the engineering lifecycle, from concept through support
• Ability to deliver engineering outcomes to cost, quality and schedule requirements
• Experience managing stakeholders, customer requirements and cross-functional technical delivery
• Effective leadership, communication and problem-solving skills, with a collaborative approach

The 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 applicantsmust as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicantsmust 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: 29th October 2026

We are currently accepting speculative referrals for specific skillsets (roles based in the UK). Click here to find out more. All Privacy rights will be protected.

Make a speculative referral

If this advert states that this role is eligible for the UK referral scheme, but there is no link here to make a referral for this specific vacancy, please contact the Recruitment Helpdesk who will be able to advise.