Job title: Marine Systems Engineer

Location: Portsmouth. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements. Please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Salary: £45,000 - £47,000 depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

Use expertise to provide advice and guidance of own discipline to stakeholders within project or team

Act as a focal point for discipline specific tasks ensuring best practices are adopted, ensuring overall compliance to Engineering processes and standards

Provide design assurance and governance to a team or technical standards, evaluate and contribute to design change proposals

Have experience in supporting defect resolution through active problem-solving skills, liaising with team members and other stakeholders to generate appropriate solutions

Participate in verification/validation activities such to manage risk and demonstrate compliance

Your skills and experiences:

Core Mechanical Engineering skills and experience

Knowledge of mechanical systems including, HVAC, Fuel Firefighting Systems, Water Systems – Fresh, Chilled, Grey and, Gas Systems, Intake and Exhaust Systems Lub Oil and Hydraulics

Marine, Naval or Warship experience is desirable

Degree or equivalent and or experience mechanical background

IEng or able to work towards professional registration

You’ll receive benefits including a competitive pension scheme, enhanced annual leave allowance and a Company contributed Share Incentive Plan. You’ll also have access to additional benefits such as flexible working, an employee assistance programme, Cycle2work and employee discounts – you may also be eligible for an annual incentive.

The Warship Support team:

Marine Systems Senior Engineer will undertake a defined range of engineering activities in line with the extant CSM Work Breakdown Structure, the CSM Business Processes and relevant BAES Business Management Processes/Procedures. The primary responsibility of this role is to ensure the design intent and safety of platform and auxiliary systems and to collate the assurance evidence of this for the respective WAA while working under the definitive engineering authority of the appropriate Class Lead Engineer (CLE).

As the world has evolved, so has the way we work. Our working approach, will enable you to have flexibility with your working hours, depending on your role and location. This could include accruing hours as well as flexibility around start and finish times, ensuring you can balance life at work, on site and life at home.

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, rewards integrity, and merit, and where you’ll be empowered to fulfil your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds and particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and LGBTQ+ individuals.

We also 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 working for BAE Systems will be subject to both security and export control restrictions. These restrictions mean that factors including your nationality, any previous nationalities you have held, and your place of birth may limit those roles you can perform for the organisation. All applicants must as a minimum achieve Baseline Personnel Security Standard. Many roles also require higher levels of National Security Vetting where applicants must typically have 5 to 10 years of continuous residency in the UK depending on the vetting level required for the role, to allow for meaningful security vetting checks.

Closing Date: 9th October 2025

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive sufficient applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.