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# Lead Systems Engineer/Team Lead

- **Company:** BAE Systems
- **Location:** Rochester, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £65,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, MATLAB, Simulink, Polarion
- **Published:** August 10, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerboard.com/pt/en/find-jobs-in-United-Kingdom/-AF98B84DB324480847/

## About the Role

* A degree or equivalent experience in a relevant Scientific/Engineering subject (eg Systems Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Aerospace, Physics or Mathematics)
 * Experience in the systems engineering domain and product lifecycle
 * Familiarity with system engineering tools such as DOORS, Siemens Polarion, Enterprise Architect, CAMEO, MATLAB and/or Simulink
 * Experience leading a team and making decisions from either a technical or managerial aspects

## Description

This role focuses on guiding and developing engineers by offering technical direction, supporting wellbeing, and helping shape their career growth. It involves collaborating across teams to identify effective technical solutions, contributing to strategic project decisions, and ensuring initiatives are implemented smoothly.

A key part of the position is understanding project scope, timelines, and resource needs, while regularly advising managers on team capacity and skill requirements. The role also ensures dependencies and facilities are in place for successful delivery, and supports the wider business by preparing bid estimates and maintaining schedules and budgets for ongoing projects.

Core duties:

 * Providing guidance to less experienced engineers, supporting team members wellbeing and career development
 * Understanding the scope, size and time phasing of packages of work, and using this to facilitate and contribute to project success
 * Understanding the team size and skillset required, giving regular status and recommendations on resourcing requirements to the project and functional engineering manager
 * Supporting the business by creating new estimates for bids and maintaining the schedule and budget for on-going projects


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