Hardware Team Leader

Location: Rochester

Salary: Circa £60,000 per annum

As a Hardware Team Leader, you will play a pivotal role in guiding a talented electronics design team. Your responsibilities will include:

• Leading both managerial and technical aspects of the team.
• Managing work packages, including cost, schedule, risk, and opportunities.
• Ensuring the engineering team meets production program demands.
• Providing technical governance and ensuring adherence to company processes.
• Driving cost and performance trade-offs.
• Overseeing Control Account Management (CAM).

Essential:

• Demonstrated high performance in leading engineering teams through the full product development lifecycle.
• Proven experience with cost and planning management tools, optimizing solutions, and minimizing impacts from dependencies.
• Experience in design improvements and team skill development, focusing on failure reduction and Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF).
• Knowledge of supporting production programs.

Desirable:

• Experience with PLD / FPGA design.
• Familiarity with requirements management tools, such as DOORS.
• Experience with work-package management tools, such as MSP or JIRA.

At BAE Systems, we offer more than just a job; we provide a platform for you to thrive. Our benefits include:

• A competitive pension scheme.
• Employee share plans.
• An extensive range of flexible health, wellbeing, and lifestyle benefits, including a green car scheme and private health plans.
• Shopping discounts and potential eligibility for an annual incentive.

In this role, you will lead a team of highly skilled hardware engineers dedicated to supporting production programs for cutting-edge products like Helmet Mounted & Head-Up Displays, Mission Computers, Flight Controls, and more. This is your chance to work on innovative projects and advance your career in a dynamic environment.

We are committed to creating a workplace where you can make a real difference. Our inclusive culture values diversity of thought and rewards integrity and merit. We welcome individuals from all backgrounds and strive to ensure our recruitment processes are as inclusive as possible. If you have a disability or health condition that may affect your performance, we encourage you to discuss potential reasonable adjustments with your recruiter.

Please note that many roles at BAE Systems are subject to security and export control restrictions. Factors such as nationality and residency may affect your eligibility for certain roles. All applicants must achieve at least the Baseline Personnel Security Standard, with many roles requiring higher levels of National Security Vetting.

3rd February 2026

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications. If you’re interested, we encourage you to apply as soon as possible!