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# Hardware Team Leader

- **Company:** BAE Systems
- **Location:** Chatham, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £65,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JIRA, Computer Engineering, Desktop Computing, Package Management Systems, Requirements Management, Safety Critical Systems
- **Published:** September 1, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/apply/ats-redirect/?id=2948576405-2

## About the Role

* Ability 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
 * It is desirable you will have experience of the Safety Critical Systems, requirements management tools, such as DOORS or work-package management tools, such as MSP, JIRA

The Hardware Team:

You will be working as part of a multidisciplinary team to formulate and optimise innovative hardware engineering solutions, for 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 cutting-edge projects as a member of a very experienced diverse team, with the view to progressing your career in this industry.

## Description

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.

Core duties:

 * Providing managerial and technical leadership of an electronics design team
 * Managing work packages, cost, schedule, risk and opportunities.
 * Working with production teams to ensure the engineering team is supporting the production program demand
 * Providing technical governance and ensuring adherence to company processes
 * Leading cost and performance trade-offs as well as driving continuous improvement
 * Reporting status of tasks and technical maturity to project management
 * Working closely with the functional management to review resourcing needs