Test Systems Team Leader

Job Title: Test Systems Team Leader

Location: Rochester, Kent

Salary: Up to £58,000 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Working in a team environment you will be leading a multi disciplined engineering team, developing test equipment solutions that support the complex and demanding requirements of our military products. Our test solutions are multifaceted and versatile, using model-based engineering approaches to provide innovative equipment across our customer base

• This role will provide you with a good opportunity to be part of a diverse and growing team, where ideas and development is encouraged, with opportunities to direct ladder or sidestep into other areas of the BAE Systems organisation. You will be managing the complete development lifecycle, within a challenging timescale, in order to support our customer requirements

• Supporting our drive to innovative test solutions, maximising automation

• Championing team performance and development

• Management of schedule adherence and cost control

• Full engineering lifecycle, risk and opportunity management

• Lead stakeholder project reviews

• Support across the bid lifecycle

• Pro-active sub-contractor management

Your skills and experiences:

• Proven experience of working in an engineering environment

• Experience in leading test solutions or in a similar engineering discipline

• Educated to degree level or equivalent working experience

• Proven team leader or management background

• Solutions provider who has a thinking outside the box approach

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.

The Electronic Systems team:

As a Test Systems Team Leader, you will be working as part of an integrated project team developing innovative Test Equipment solutions using the latest technology, where we welcome new ideas and approaches and supporting the program, repairs and aftermarket service.

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 Ba