Job Title: Lead Mechanical Engineer

Location: Barrow-in-Furness. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this role

Salary: Competitive

What you’ll be doing:

As a Lead Principal Engineer within the SSNA Platform Mechanical Integrated Delivery Team (IDT), you will play a key leadership role in delivering engineering scope across a complex and fast-paced submarine programme. You’ll take ownership of multiple systems, provide technical assurance, and collaborate across disciplines to drive delivery forward.

• Leading the delivery of assigned engineering scope, ensuring quality and timely outputs across design, integration, and qualification
• Overseeing technical ownership of several mechanical systems, ensuring compliance with system requirements and effective collaboration across interface areas
• Producing engineering artifacts, including documentation, calculations and performing simulation/analysis.
• Managing task allocation and progress tracking through structured tools (Jira/Confluence), ensuring alignment with programme milestones, cost, and schedule expectations
• Coaching and supporting engineers at all levels — from graduates to senior professionals — to grow technical capability and confidence
• Working closely with peers, suppliers, and wider functional stakeholders to resolve issues and maintain delivery momentum
• Reviewing technical documentation, supporting hazard assessments, and managing change control with sound engineering judgement
• Proactively identifying and addressing shortfalls in delivery, documentation or process — embedding a culture of openness, improvement, and accountability

Your skills and experiences:

We’re looking for someone who can confidently lead engineering work packages while mentoring others and contributing to a collaborative delivery culture. You should have:

• A proven track record of delivering complex mechanical or multi-disciplinary engineering tasks in a regulated environment
• Experience mentoring or coaching engineers to support technical and professional growth
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the confidence to lead conversations, challenge constructively, and build strong working relationships
• The ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, project, safety, ILS and supply chain functions
• Familiarity with task and documentation management tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Working toward or already professionally registered (CEng strongly preferred)
• A STEM-related degree (or equivalent experience) with strong foundations in systems thinking and platform-level integration

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 Platform Mechanical team:

You’ll join the Platform Mechanical Integrated Delivery Team — a dynamic, collaborative engineering group working at the forefront of submarine platform development. The team brings together engineers from across disciplines, career levels, and partner organisations to deliver critical mechanical capability. Through close engagement with suppliers, systems engineers, and programme stakeholders, you’ll play a central role in shaping high-integrity technical solutions, supporting team development, and ensuring delivery remains aligned with the wider programme plan and budget. We have multiple roles available & will be offering positions within the following disciplines; Air Purification & Atmosphere Monitoring, Trim & Compensation, Hydraulics, Air Movement & HVAC, and Cooling. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

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 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: 5th January 2026

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.

Job Title: Lead Mechanical Design Engineer

Location: Barrow-in-Furness. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this role

Salary: Circa £55,000

What you’ll be doing:

As a Lead Principal Engineer within the SSNA Platform Mechanical Integrated Delivery Team (IDT), you will play a key leadership role in delivering engineering scope across a complex and fast-paced submarine programme. You’ll take ownership of multiple systems, provide technical assurance, and collaborate across disciplines to drive delivery forward.

• Leading the delivery of assigned engineering scope, ensuring quality and timely outputs across design, integration, and qualification
• Overseeing technical ownership of several mechanical systems, ensuring compliance with system requirements and effective collaboration across interface areas
• Producing engineering artifacts, including documentation, calculations and performing simulation/analysis.
• Managing task allocation and progress tracking through structured tools (Jira/Confluence), ensuring alignment with programme milestones, cost, and schedule expectations
• Coaching and supporting engineers at all levels — from graduates to senior professionals — to grow technical capability and confidence
• Working closely with peers, suppliers, and wider functional stakeholders to resolve issues and maintain delivery momentum
• Reviewing technical documentation, supporting hazard assessments, and managing change control with sound engineering judgement
• Proactively identifying and addressing shortfalls in delivery, documentation or process — embedding a culture of openness, improvement, and accountability

Your skills and experiences:

We’re looking for someone who can confidently lead engineering work packages while mentoring others and contributing to a collaborative delivery culture. You should have:

• A proven track record of delivering complex mechanical or multi-disciplinary engineering tasks in a regulated environment
• Experience mentoring or coaching engineers to support technical and professional growth
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, with the confidence to lead conversations, challenge constructively, and build strong working relationships
• The ability to collaborate effectively across engineering, project, safety, ILS and supply chain functions
• Familiarity with task and documentation management tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Working toward or already professionally registered (CEng strongly preferred)
• A STEM-related degree (or equivalent experience) with strong foundations in systems thinking and platform-level integration

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 Platform Mechanical team:

You’ll join the Platform Mechanical Integrated Delivery Team — a dynamic, collaborative engineering group working at the forefront of submarine platform development. The team brings together engineers from across disciplines, career levels, and partner organisations to deliver critical mechanical capability. Through close engagement with suppliers, systems engineers, and programme stakeholders, you’ll play a central role in shaping high-integrity technical solutions, supporting team development, and ensuring delivery remains aligned with the wider programme plan and budget. We have multiple roles available & will be offering positions within the following disciplines; Air Purification & Atmosphere Monitoring, Trim & Compensation, Hydraulics, Air Movement & HVAC, and Cooling. We offer relocation support packages across all Submarines roles, subject to meeting eligibility criteria.

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 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: 2nd February 2026

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.

We are seeking a Data Platform Lead to join our Group Technology team in Milton Keynes. You will play a leading role in delivering the formal requirements associated with the Connells Group Data Platform, including design, capacity, management and configuration management responsibilities. As the Data Platform Lead, you will be managing a team of technical specialists across Connells data estate on a day-to-day basis, liaising with 3rd party providers, mentoring and developing the teams core skills and expertise whilst maturing the overall processes and procedures in relation to the service. The role also supports the business objectives and strategy through the delivery of secure, supportable and scalable on-premises, cloud and hybrid data platforms.

Key Responsibilities:

• Line management of a number of direct reports within the team. Resource management across the team, ensuring that the relevant workload associated to the team (Design, Project delivery, Operational and Change) are delivered as agreed.
• Act as the Subject Matter expertise around the Data Platform capability.
• Maintain the Data Platform for all Connells users, managing critical downtime and risk of disruption.
• To lead on ensuring an appropriate and robust response to applicable incidents, and to ensure root cause analysis and resolution occurs. In addition, ensuring an applicable out-of-hours support model in place as required for 24x7x365 operational running.

Team Roles and Responsibilities:

• Owns the Data Platform designs and supplier relationship
• Incident and Change
• Support projects where appropriate
• Undertake proactive monitoring and react to escalations from other IT teams
• Ensures Patches and Upgrades are implemented in line with operational limits

Experience and Skills Required:

Essential:

• Demonstrable Experience in similar relevant technical managerial roles
• Strong experience of incident resolution, requests, changes and problem-solving activities delivered to agreed SLAs.
• Experience of implementing Cloud Technologies
• Experience of Microsoft Fabric and SQL Server
• Extensive experience of implementing, managing and supporting data platforms in a demanding environment
• Experience of JIRA and Confluence
• Understanding of FinOps; PaaS; Alerting and Monitoring

Desirable:

• Experience of managing teams of over 5+ people in a complex, challenging environment setting and managing against SLAs and business objectives.
• Experience of GitHub, Git Actions, Terraform, Zero Trust architectures and PaaS.
• Preferably educated to graduate level with a bachelors degree in business, computer science or a related field

Connells Group UKis an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, transgender status, religion or belief, marital status, or pregnancy and maternity.

Dont meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of colour are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. At Connells Group we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. So, if youre excited about this role but your experience doesnt fit perfectly with every aspect of the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other opportunities.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Software Engineer to join a leading provider of flight simulation technology. You will develop real-time software used in state-of-the-art Full Flight Simulators and Fixed Training Devices that replicate the form, fit, and function of real aircraft flight decks. This role sits at the heart of a major transformation programme and is ideal for someone who is hands-on, motivated, and eager to implement change in a fast-paced, customer-focused environment. Key Responsibilities for the Software Engineer Develop real-time software for flight simulators, from control systems to graphical user interfaces. Support integration, testing, fault finding, and problem resolution on simulated systems. Contribute to the full product lifecycle, from requirements analysis through to customer acceptance and post-delivery support. What You’ll Bring Strong C programming skills. Practical understanding of the Systems Engineering V-model and/or Software Development Lifecycle. Ability to work collaboratively in a multi-disciplinary team, with minimal supervision. Strong communication and presentation skills. Degree in engineering, mathematics, science, or equivalent experience within aviation/aerospace engineering. Desirable Skills Experience with safety-critical systems in aerospace, automotive, or related industries. Knowledge of C#, C++, web technologies (JavaScript, HTML), and Windows application development (Visual Studio). Familiarity with ARINC, AFDX, or CAN bus protocols. Experience using the Atlassian toolset (Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, Bamboo). Benefits 25 days holiday (plus bank holidays), increasing with service, with the option to buy/sell up to 5 days. Private medical insurance (with optional family cover). Pension scheme with up to 7% employer contribution. Life assurance (4x salary, flexible up to 10x). Group income protection. Flexible benefits including healthcare cash plan, dental cover, gym membership, critical illness cover, and cycle-to-work scheme. Employee assistance programme for mental health and wellbeing. Subsidised staff restaurant and on-site parking with electric vehicle charging. Why Join Challenging Projects: Work on cutting-edge flight simulators used by global aerospace organisations. Collaborative Environment: Partner with experts across systems, hardware, and software engineering. Innovative Technology: Develop next-generation simulation solutions, including avionics hardware and advanced control systems. Career Growth: Opportunities for professional development and advancement within a forward-thinking, global industry. Eligibility: Applicants must have the right to work in the UK. This is a unique opportunity to contribute to next-generation flight simulation technology, working with cutting-edge systems that enhance pilot training and aviation safety worldwide. TT

Description

Systems Engineer

Location: Whiteley/Hybrid

Clearance Requirements: Current SC clearance, or the ability to gain SC clearance.

We are recruiting a systems engineer to support the development of an ATM system. This is an opportunity to work on an exciting programme delivering critical services and infrastructure key to the future of UK Air Traffic Management. The successful candidate does not need to be familiar with ATM (although it would be an advantage) as on-the-job training will be provided as required.

high quality to wide range of challenging problems. They will work as part of an agile team performing all aspects of systems engineering throughout the development life cycle to meet sprint milestones.

Required Skills:

• Experience of requirements management and associated software (e.g. DOORS)
• Experience of systems architecture within a real-time and/or safety-related system and/or mission critical environment
• Experience of the complete system life cycle from problem definition through to deployment
• Experience of the ability to work as part of a Multi-functional product team (Systems Engineering, Software Engineering, Test, Engineering Management)
• Enthusiastic self-starter with good attention to detail and verbal communication skills.
• Excellent written communication through the use of e-mail, presentations and reports
• Understanding of various development methodologies
• Ability to work with due attention to schedule and cost constraints

Desired Skills:

• Experience of Atlassian tools (e.g. Jira, Crucible, Confluence)
• Experience of working with external stakeholders and suppliers, working across organisational boundaries as appropriate
• Knowledge of Air Traffic Management within the UK
• Knowledge of systems / software design tools (e.g. Enterprise Architect, Cameo Systems Modeller)
• Knowledge of Control and Monitoring technologies (e.g. SNMP v2c, SNMP v3)

Who We Are:

Leidos UK & Europe – we work to make the world safer, healthier, and more efficient through technology, engineering and science.

Leidos is a growing company delivering innovative technology and solutions focused on safeguarding critical capabilities and transformation in frontline services, our work in the United Kingdom includes addressing some of the most complex problems in defence, healthcare, government, safety and security, and transportation.

What Makes Us Different:

Purpose: you can use your passion and abilities at Leidos to keep the people you care about safe. We are at the forefront of machine learning, AI, cyber security and solutions. Using your skills in the technology frontline by helping to build a safer world.  You can inspire change.

Collaboration: having flexibility to do your job is one of our core benefits, enabling you to become part of our extraordinary team.  We have been empowering our people to work flexibly for years.  Whether you work from home, the office or on customer sites, we will give you the digital tools and the flexibility to work smarter and align your needs and ours.

People: Leidos empowers people from every background to be themselves and gives you the tools to learn new skills by enabling growth whilst developing. We believe that extraordinary people need opportunities to grow, to be inspired and to inspire others. At Leidos, we invest in technical academies, career rotations and a career development plans that enhance your future.

If you’re looking for comfort, keep scrolling. At Leidos, we outthink, outbuild, and outpace the status quo — because the mission demands it. We’re not hiring followers. We’re recruiting the ones who disrupt, provoke, and refuse to fail. Step 10 is ancient history. We’re already at step 30 — and moving faster than anyone else dares.

Original Posting:

For U.S. Positions: While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range:

£47,600.00-£61,000.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

About Leidos

Leidos is an industry and technology leader serving government and commercial customers with smarter, more efficient digital and mission innovations. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, with 47,000 global employees, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $16.7 billion for the fiscal year ended January 3, 2025. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com.

Pay and Benefits

Pay and benefits are fundamental to any career decision. That’s why we craft compensation packages that reflect the importance of the work we do for our customers. Employment benefits include competitive compensation, Health and Wellness programs, Income Protection, Paid Leave and Retirement. More details are available at www.leidos.com/careers/pay-benefits.

Securing Your Data

Beware of fake employment opportunities using Leidos’ name. Leidos will never ask you to provide payment-related information during any part of the employment application process (i.e., ask you for money), nor will Leidos ever advance money as part of the hiring process (i.e., send you a check or money order before doing any work). Further, Leidos will only communicate with you through emails that are generated by the Leidos.com automated system – never from free commercial services (e.g., Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail) or via WhatsApp, Telegram, etc. If you received an email purporting to be from Leidos that asks for payment-related information or any other personal information (e.g., about you or your previous employer), and you are concerned about its legitimacy, please make us aware immediately by emailing us at LeidosCareersFraud@leidos.com.

If you believe you are the victim of a scam, contact your local law enforcement and report the incident to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law. Leidos will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories consistent with relevant laws.

#Remote

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our Operations and Maintenance team in Harrogate, reporting to the Head of System Operations. You’ll be part of a highly skilled team responsible for ensuring the performance, reliability, and readiness of critical systems.

Our division delivers innovative, reliable, and secure solutions to national and international customers across defence, civil, and commercial sectors. If you’re driven by challenges, thrive in complex environments, and want to make a tangible impact, this is the role for you.

Key Responsibilities

• Monitor system and subsystem performance, preparing regular status reports
• Investigate and respond to anomalous system behaviour
• Implement performance improvements via scripting and procedure updates
• Assist in developing standard operating procedures and redundancy management documentation
• Support system reconfiguration and non-routine operations
• Monitor equipment health to maintain the highest level of mission readiness
• Undertake core skills training and follow-on advanced development
• Work a non-traditional schedule, including occasional 12-hour shifts and weekend

What We’re Looking For

Essential:

• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline with relevant experience or Master’s in STEM with relevant experience
• Ability to thrive as both a leader and a technical contributor
• Experience leading briefs and providing solutions to decision-makers
• Proven project or team leadership experience in complex, high-pressure environments

Preferred:

• Operations or systems/software engineering experience
• Linux OS and scripting skills (Python, Perl)
• Experience with Atlassian tools (Confluence, Jira)
• Experience in geographically distributed teams
• Knowledge of Flask Web Framework or Jupyter Notebooks

PMO Analyst (Project Portfolio & Governance)
Sector: Engineering / Infrastructure / Technology
27 per hour Umbrella
INSIDE IR35
12 Month Contract
Coventry

We are looking for a highly analytical PMO Analyst to join our portfolio team. This is a pivotal role where project governance meets digital innovation. You won’t just be tracking milestones; you will be building the dashboards and reporting frameworks that drive multi-million-pound decision-making across our entire project estate.

The Role
As the PMO Analyst, you will act as the “engine room” for our project portfolio. Your role is to ensure governance is robust, schedules are aligned, and data is visualized in a way that tells a clear story to our stakeholders. From JQL scripting in Jira to architecting Tableau dashboards, you will be the technical expert who ensures our delivery stays on track.

Key Accountabilities:

• Support the implementation of portfolio-wide standards, document control, and rigorous assurance processes.
• Maintain complex project schedules and milestone plans. You will take the lead on maintaining digital tools (Jira/Confluence) and developing Tableau dashboards to track KPIs, resource use, and timelines.
• Proactively manage risk/opportunity registers and administer change control workflows to ensure project integrity.
• Define and track delivery KPIs, producing high-impact insights that aid executive decision-making.
• Analyze short- and long-term resource needs to support effective capacity planning across the delivery streams.
• Coordinate “Lessons Learned” sessions and promote a culture of knowledge sharing and “Customer Love.”

Essential Requirements:

• Proficient in Jira (including JQL scripting) and Tableau (or similar BI tools). You should be comfortable with coding languages used for reporting and dashboarding.
• Proven experience in a PMO, Project Analyst, or Support role within a complex, large-scale environment.
• Familiarity with project/portfolio frameworks (APM, PRINCE2) and a strong understanding of risk, issue, and change control.
• Advanced Excel skills and the ability to interpret complex data into simplified messages for stakeholders.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with the ability to engage cross-functional teams and maintain stakeholder maps.

Desirable:

• Formal PM qualification (APM, PRINCE2, or PMI).
• Experience in Engineering, Infrastructure, or technical sectors.
• Knowledge of lifecycle frameworks such as RIBA or V-model.
• Experience with Confluence and collaborative digital platforms.