Lead Design Engineer

April 25, 2025
Urgent

Job Description

Key Responsibilities:

  • Leading and coordinating technical activities across BAE-Outfit, Mechanical, Electrical, and Structural design disciplines.
  • Implementing design solutions that meet project requirements and adhere to industry standards.
  • Ensuring effective communication and collaboration among multidisciplinary teams.
  • Providing technical guidance and mentorship to design teams.
  • Reviewing and approving technical documentation and design outputs.
  • Maintaining compliance with relevant safety and quality standards.
  • Managing project timelines, deliverables, and resource allocation.
  • Reporting on project progress and addressing any technical challenges that arise.

Knowledge:

  • Considerable experience in engineering or technical role

  • Experience of large scale engineering projects

  • Self-awareness and consequential impact on other

  • Requires a breadth and depth of specialist technical knowledge and a broad experience of processes, data systems and the business environment

Skills:

  • Ability to communicate & exchange ideas effectively both verbally and in writing.
  • Collaborates with others to achieve goals & objectives.
  • Demonstrates influencing and negotiation skills where required.
  • Demonstrates customer focus, demonstrates diplomacy and tactfulness in customer communications.
  • Ability to interpret and communicate technical instructions.
  • Applies judgement to the selection of appropriate solution to problems, based on own knowledge and experience of similar situations and within the limits of documentation and governing processes.
  • Uses escalation procedures for emergent issues.

Qualifications:

  • Requires completion of vocational training (Apprenticeship, Vocational Qualifications) or the equivalent experience
  • May require external certification (HNC, ONC, HND) but typically does not require a university degree
  • Would be desirable if post holder has EngTech status or working towards IEng or CEng status (UK).

Security:

BPSS only

This role requires you to obtain a basic disclosure along with employment reference checks before starting.

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