Hardware Team Leader

BAE Systems

4h • $60,000 • Onsite

About The Position

What you’ll be doing:
Managerial and technical leadership of an electronics design team
Work package management; cost, schedule, risk and opportunities
Ensuring the engineering team is supporting the production program demand
Providing technical governance and ensuring adherence to company processes
Leading cost and performance trade-offs
Control Account Management (CAM)
The Hardware team:
As a Hardware Team Leader, you will lead a team of highly skilled and experienced hardware engineers responsible for the support to our production programs within products such as Helmet Mounted & Head-Up Displays, Mission Computers, Flight Controls, Active Inceptors and other associated safety critical technology. This role will provide you with the opportunity to work with innovating projects as a member of a very experienced diverse team, with the view to progressing your career in this industry.
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.

Requirements

• Able to demonstrate high performance and achievement in leadership and management of engineering teams through a full product development lifecycle
• Proven experience / knowledge of cost and planning management tools/ optimising solutions and minimising impacts from dependencies/ product design and work package control
• Experience of design and identifying improvements to working practices and team skill development. Alongside root cause and target areas of improvement , focusing on failure reduction and MDBF
• Knowledge of supporting a production program

Nice To Haves

• Experience of PLD / FPGA design
• Requirements management tools, such as DOORS
• Work-package management tools, such as MSP, JIRA

Responsibilities

• Managerial and technical leadership of an electronics design team
• Work package management; cost, schedule, risk and opportunities
• Ensuring the engineering team is supporting the production program demand
• Providing technical governance and ensuring adherence to company processes
• Leading cost and performance trade-offs
• Control Account Management (CAM)

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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Education Level: No Education Listed