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# Hardware Team Leader

- **Company:** BAE Systems
- **Location:** Kent, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £60,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JIRA, Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA), Package Management Systems, Requirements Management
- **Published:** September 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.collegerecruiter.com/job/2862313859-hardware-team-leader

## About the Role

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

Desirable:

Experience of PLD / FPGA design

Requirements management tools, such as DOORS

Work-package management tools, such as MSP, JIRA, typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for

## Description

Ensuring the engineering team is supporting the production program demand

Providing technical governance and ensuring adherence to company processes


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