Job Title: Change Management Engineer

Location: Portsmouth Naval Base – Minimum 3 days a week onsite

We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Grade: GG09

You’re expected to have completed 12 months in role prior to applying for an advertised vacancy and you should also discuss the internal opportunity with your line manager to ensure sustained business continuity and to further support your career development.

We know there may be exceptional individual circumstances that impact this, in the first instance please discuss this with your line manager.

If you don’t feel you can talk to your line manager, you can contact your HRBP.

PLEASE NOTE: Should you be invited for interview; you acknowledge that the Recruitment team will contact you and your line manager regarding your application for this opportunity.

Role Description:

Join our Engineering Change team and play a central role in driving the delivery of safe, compliant and effective platform capability. You will take responsibility for coordinating engineering change activity, ensuring it is robustly managed, governed and clearly understood across stakeholders. By maintaining strong oversight of delivery, you will enable informed decision making and help ensure alignment with established industry standards. Working across a multi-disciplinary environment, you will actively influence design, configuration and acceptance outcomes. This is an exciting opportunity to shape engineering change, collaborate widely and contribute to continuous improvement in a fast-paced, purpose-driven environment.

Core duties:

Drive coordination of engineering change activity, ensuring changes are effectively managed, governed and progressed through clear oversight of risks, dependencies and delivery status.
Ensure engineering change is robustly controlled by maintaining accurate plans and tracking tools that provide clear visibility of progress, impacts and decisions.
Enable delivery of design change by contributing to development, configuration control, governance and acceptance activities, ensuring outcomes align with safety and operational requirements.
Support planning and execution of design change initiatives, contributing to reviews, readiness assessments and progress monitoring to drive timely and successful implementation.
Strengthen team delivery by coordinating outputs, identifying process improvements, supporting colleagues and contributing to risk management and continuous improvement activities.

Essential Skills:

Understanding of engineering change and systems engineering, with the ability to apply structured approaches to manage and control change effectively
Communication and stakeholder management skills, with confidence in influencing decisions and clearly presenting technical information to varied audiences
Experience using planning, reporting and engineering tools to manage delivery, track performance and support robust governance of engineering activities
Engineering qualification (HNC, HND or equivalent experience), with progress towards or interest in achieving professional registration

The Warship Technical Authority (WTA) Service Hub:

This position sits within the Warship Technical Authority (WTA) Service Hub. The WTA aims to deliver Naval whole ship, systems, equipment and change management support.

As Change Management Engineer within the WTA, you will provide engineering support to programmes and projects within Warship Support. Such programmes/projects include Royal Navy surface ship support contracts, International naval support contracts, and Internal and external engineering consultancy projects.

Why BAE Systems?

Here you’ll build a career with purpose and limitless possibilities. With lifelong learning and meaningful work, this is a place where you can grow your career with confidence and be empowered to be your best. You’ll be recognised for your contribution and enjoy rewards tailored to what’s most important to you and your family, support for your financial and personal wellbeing, as well as a balanced lifestyle. In an environment embracing sustainable ways of working and with a strong sense of shared purpose, our supportive culture is a place you can feel you belong and proud of the difference you make.

A place where everyone can thrive:

We’re committed to building an inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported. We know that a diversity of backgrounds, perspectives and experiences strengthens our teams and is vital to the work we do.

We welcome applications from all suitably qualified people, who are BAE Systems employees and have been in their current role for 12 months or longer.

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: 27th October 2026