Job Title: Industrial Placement Maritime Services Systems Engineer
Location: Portsmouth Naval Base (Hampshire)
Start Date: 23rd June 2025
BAE Systems offers a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements; however, it is expected that during our Industrial Placement Programme, you will be required to attend your site 4-5 days per week. This may change in line with the needs of the business, and your line manager will outline which days you are required to work on-site or remotely.
Salary: £23,100
Join our Maritime Services Team to become part of the only provider of complex warships, providing the Royal Navy with its most advanced and powerful attack warships. Our end-to-end Maritime Services range from warship availability, equipment and facilities management, to training, product development, and through-life support for radar, torpedoes, and small boats. Every role makes a difference, and you will make a difference.
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 fulfill your potential. We welcome candidates from all backgrounds, particularly from sections of the community who are currently underrepresented within our industry, including women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, and LGBTQ+ individuals.
What you will be doing:
As an Industrial Placement Systems Engineer, you will learn and develop skills associated with the principles of Systems Engineering applicable across the entire engineering development lifecycle, from requirement definition to system integration and acceptance into system support.
Under the supervision of our Senior Engineers, you will apply growing Systems Engineering knowledge and skills to requirements elicitation, design, development, performance assessment, integration, acceptance, and support, to resolve engineering issues for defined scenarios relating to the development and acceptance of products.
Duties and Responsibilities: Work across a range of products and services, resolving common engineering problems while working under close technical supervision as part of a system design team. With direction, discern and decompose requirements to system and sub-system level and manage these in a toolset such as IBM DOORS Next. With direction, undertake system design, often using Model Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) techniques, to subsystem level using toolsets such as Cameo Magicdraw or Enterprise Architect. With direction, undertake system modelling and simulation activities using toolsets such as MATLAB/Simulink and Python. With direction, undertake the specification and design of external and internal system interfaces. Assist with the definition and execution of system integration and testing. Support senior engineers in the definition of acceptance strategies used to verify requirement compliance at different levels of system design & support production of acceptance evidence. Assist with technical reviews of engineering technical documentation and design. Skills:
As a minimum requirement, you'll need to be on track to obtain a 2.2 in your Bachelor's or Master's degree in Physics, Maths, Systems Engineering, Computer Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or a similarly aligned engineering degree.
To be considered for this role, you must be returning to university to complete your degree.
Opportunities for Growth and Development: We encourage employees to explore projects beyond their primary responsibilities, providing them with diverse experiences. With a wide range of products and a multinational presence, there are ample opportunities for employees to engage in various projects and initiatives.
Community Involvement: In addition to professional development, BAE Systems values community engagement. Employees are encouraged to participate in community projects, STEM initiatives, and employee resource groups, offering valuable learning experiences outside of their regular roles.
Retention and Career Development: Recognising the importance of retaining talented individuals, we offer sponsorship, career development support, and high-potential development programs. These initiatives aim to help employees plan their careers effectively and provide opportunities for accelerated development for those who demonstrate aspiration, ability, and performance.
Benefits:
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.
Inclusivity within our recruitment process:
We 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.
Our environmental responsibility:
As a future-focused business, we're committed to changing the world we live in for the better. Our target is to achieve net zero emissions by 2030, and we're innovating new ways to develop on-site renewable electricity and setting ambitious targets for water consumption and waste generation.
Export Control/Security:
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.
Qualification requirements:
As a minimum requirement, you'll need to be on track to obtain a 2.2 in your Bachelor's or Master's degree in Physics, Maths, Systems Engineering, Computer Systems Engineering, Computer Science, or a similarly aligned engineering degree.
Start date: 23rd June 2025
Length of contract: 12 months
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