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Our client, a renowned company in the Defence & Security sector, is currently seeking a Senior Systems Engineer for a 12-month contract position based in Rochester. The role requires expertise in BAE-Systems engineering and involves working fully onsite. The position is inside IR35 and requires BPSS + SC in-flight security clearance.

• Providing expert systems engineering support within the Defence & Security sector
• Leading project teams and managing system engineering tasks and deliverables
• Coordinating with internal and external stakeholders to ensure project success
• Developing and implementing robust systems engineering processes and procedures
• Conducting system requirements analysis and producing detailed design specifications
• Overseeing system integration, verification, and validation activities
• Ensuring compliance with industry standards and best practices
• Delivering technical reports and presentations to senior management and clients

• Extensive experience as a systems engineer within the Defence & Security sector
• Proficiency in BAE-Systems engineering methodologies and practices
• Strong understanding of systems integration, verification, and validation processes
• Experience in conducting system requirements analysis and design
• Excellent leadership and team management skills
• Strong communication and interpersonal abilities
• Security clearance (BPSS + SC in-flight) is mandatory
• Ability to work fully onsite in Rochester

• Opportunity to work on significant projects within the Defence & Security sector
• Engagement in a 12-month contract with potential for further opportunities
• Collaborative and dynamic work environment
• Access to state-of-the-art facilities and resources

If you are a seasoned Senior Systems Engineer with expertise in BAE-Systems engineering, we encourage you to apply now and join our client's dedicated team in Rochester.

An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Lead Systems Architect - Electronics to join an established and forward-thinking engineering team within a UK-based technology company located in Kent.

The successful Lead Systems Architect - Electronics, Kent will define, design, and oversee system architecture for new product development, ensuring seamless integration of mechanical, electrical, and software components. The role balances technical, customer, and business requirements to deliver robust, scalable, and compliant products.

Key Responsibilities:

• Establish and own the system architecture vision.
• Translate requirements into system-level specifications.
• Define interfaces between hardware, firmware, software, and mechanical components.
• Lead trade-off studies, risk assessments, and validation planning.
• Ensure scalability, modularity, and maintainability in designs.
• Serve as the technical authority and primary point of coordination for system-level design

Technical Skills/Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in electrical/systems engineering (Master's/PhD preferred).
• Vast experience in electronic product development; a few years in an architect/lead role.
• Proven track record in electrical measurement equipment (e.G., Multimeters, oscilloscopes, analysers).
• Strong knowledge of embedded systems, analogue (analog) /digital design, data acquisition, and signal conditioning.
• Experience with SysML, MATLAB/Simulink, and version-controlled design workflows

This is a permanent position for a Lead Systems Architect - Electronics based in Kent, offering a fantastic opportunity to work on meaningful and technically varied projects in a supportive and technically rich environment. If you're driven by innovation and take pride in engineering, we want to hear from you.

APPLY NOW to join a passionate engineering team committed to excellence. Send your CV to (url removed) or call Ben on (phone number removed) / (phone number removed).

Job Title: Engineering Manager – Fire Systems

Location: Kent

Employment Type: Full-Time, Permanent

Overview:

We’re looking for a technically strong Engineering Manager to lead a team of around 50 fire engineers across projects, service, and maintenance. You’ll be the go-to escalation point , ensuring technical excellence, smooth delivery, and high standards across all operations.

If you’re a hands-on leader with a background in fire detection systems and a passion for developing people, this role offers the chance to shape the future of our engineering team.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead, support, and develop engineers across installation, commissioning, service, and maintenance.
• Act as the senior technical escalation point for complex issues.
• Oversee performance, safety, and compliance with BS 5839 and industry standards.
• Drive training, mentoring, and apprenticeship development.
• Plan resources effectively to meet project and service targets.
• Champion technical excellence, efficiency, and customer satisfaction.

About You:

• Experienced leader with a fire systems engineering background.
• Strong knowledge of leading fire alarm systems (Gent, Hochiki, Advanced, Kentec, etc.).
• Confident fault-finder and problem-solver.
• Proven experience managing large engineering teams.
• FIA-trained or equivalent qualifications preferred.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills.

What’s on Offer:

• £70,000 + car or allowance
• Pension & healthcare
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays
• Ongoing training and professional development

Job title: Principal Systems Engineer

Location: Cowes, Broad Oak, Great Baddow – Part time & accruing hours available. Please let us know if you would like to discuss these options

Salary: Up to £75,900 (dependent on skills and experience)

Put yourself into a dynamic Principal Systems Engineering role at the forefront of real world demands in the defence industry. Alongside ensuring operational excellence for our existing products, there will be the opportunity to develop next generation radar products to counter emerging threats and contribution to our strategy for new technology. Your new day-to-day will be exciting and diverse by applying the principles of Systems Engineering across the entire engineering development lifecycle as you join in developing radar systems used by those who serve and protect us.

What you’ll be doing:

• Develop novel solutions to evolving technical challenges and emerging issues for complex Radar Systems that our customers and end-user communities are facing

• Apply a breadth of knowledge, skills and experience of Systems Engineering principles, techniques and governance to steer and develop technical solutions and resolve engineering issues

• Conduct system design analysis to manage trade-offs of system parameters to characterise and specify robust product design

• Lead the decomposition of requirements to system and sub-system level and manage these in an approved toolset such as IBM DOORS Next

• Be a technical focus point with a holistic understanding of a whole system solution leading analysis activities and system design decisions and providing guidance to own team

• Collaborate with specialists across different engineering disciplines including electronics, electrical, mechanical and software to direct and realise overarching system design solutions

• Direct and undertake system integration, test planning and execution

• Define and articulate system acceptance strategies and acceptance evidence demonstrating system performance across a wide range of operational scenarios to internal and external stakeholders

• Through these activities you will build your personal profile with senior stakeholders and grow a diverse knowledge base in engineering

Your skills and experiences:

• A good understanding in some of the following subject areas; signal processing, target track extraction, object classification algorithms, system and sensor resource optimisation

• A good understanding of factors that can affect the real-world performance of sensing systems and how these can impact the accuracy and timeliness of measurements in order to meet challenging design objectives and requirements

• Demonstrates understanding and experience of Systems Engineering which could include knowledge of Systems Engineering standards (e.g., ISO 15288)

• Experience of presenting both technical and non-technical information in a formal setting

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers 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 Radar Systems Engineering team:

You will be working as a Principal Systems Engineer within our close-knit multi-function radar team of inter-disciplinary engineers, evolving our radar portfolio of existing and brand-new radar products to address emerging and future threats . This role is a fantastic opportunity to enhance your skills and invest in your career journey within a global business. You will be supported in growing your knowledge in contemporary and cutting-edge Radar techniques, with opportunities to develop your skills and responsibilities in technical leadership

In this role, you will be able to enjoy both flexible and hybrid working arrangements. Our workplace in Cowes is an easily accessible commute from Southampton with a regular foot passenger ferry and BAE shuttle service from the ferry terminal to site.

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 part time hours, 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 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 November 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.

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Description

Job Title: Summer Intern Electronic Systems Systems Engineer

Location: Rochester (Kent)

We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements, however for this role you will be expected to attend your site 4 days per week.

Salary: £24,300 Pro Rata

What you'll be doing:

• Contributing to system development using a Model Based Engineering (MBE) approach.
• Creating theoretical analyses and sharing the findings.
• Carrying out modelling of behavioural scenarios or system performance to understand system operation and interactions.
• Conducting laboratory test of real time systems comprising interdependent technical disciplines such as electronic, mechanical, optical and software components.

Benefits:

As well as a competitive pension scheme, BAE Systems also offers employee share plans, an extensive range of flexible discounted health, wellbeing & 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:

Delivering world leading controls and display solutions for more than 70 years, the workforce is at the forefront of exciting electronic technologies, including the Striker II Helmet, active control sticks and flight control computers.

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.

Qualification requirements

As a minimum requirement you'll need to have obtained, or be predicted to obtain, a 2.2 in your Bachelor's or Master's degree in a STEM subject.

Start date (dd Month Year)

22nd June 2026

Length of contract

12 weeks

Company Description

Multiconsult is a multidisciplinary engineering consultancy. Our UK team is predominantly focused on developing power projects in emerging and developing countries, in particular Sub-Saharan Africa and South/South-East Asia, in addition to Scandinavia and the UK.

Our role in leading the development of power projects means we meaningfully contribute to an environmentally sustainable future. We make a difference every day. We enable emerging and developing economies to grow in a sustainable and responsible way by providing clean, renewable energy, by giving access to electricity in areas where today electrification rate is as low as 5-10 % of the population.

Our UK team is fully integrated with the Renewable Energy and Industry division of the Multiconsult Group, which is listed on the Norwegian stock exchange and headquartered in Oslo, Norway. Multiconsult is certified as a Great Place to Work in the UK, and we are proud to be a UK's Best Workplace in Construction, Engineering and Property . We also support our graduates to work towards gaining professional recognition as a Chartered Engineer.

Multiconsult believes in responsible employees who take ownership of their own development and use their personal qualities, professional expertise and commitment for the benefit of our clients, business partners, the company, colleagues, and society as a whole. Our culture of empowerment propels us towards a joint goal and brings together a team of motivating, organized and trustworthy, value creating and engaged employees.

At Multiconsult, we enable our clients to implement the sustainable energy system of tomorrow – today.

We currently have a strong portfolio of interesting projects worldwide and are currently growing our team of engineers. We are now looking to expand our team with a Head of our Transmission and Distribution System engineering team.

Duties and responsibilities:

This is a full-time hybrid role as Head of Transmission and Distribution System Engineering team located in Ashford, where some work from home is also acceptable. The Head of Transmission and Distribution System Engineering role will be responsible for technical delivery, management, and development of the Transmission and Distribution System Engineering team.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in engineering and delivery of engineering projects, particularly related to transmission and distribution systems
• Detailed knowledge and understanding of design standards (particularly transmission and distribution systems)
• Experience from business development in related fields
• Proven track record of delivering assignments to time, budget, and quality beyond client expectations
• Experience in team management and motivating team members
• Excellent communication, influencing, and inter-personal skills to develop good working relationships with clients, colleagues, and stakeholders.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Strong leadership and management skills is an additional advantag

The successful candidate will be required to obtain and maintain security clearance for power utilities in our core markets.

An ideal candidate should be results-oriented and should possess high technical ability, practical creativity, inter-personal effectiveness, and outstanding organizational and communication skills.

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Opportunity to work on challenging and rewarding projects
• Chance to learn and grow in a dynamic and supportive environment
• Chance to work with a team of talented and dedicated engineers
• Chance to make a real difference to the world through the projects we work on
• Additional leave
• Life insurance
• On-site parking
• Private dental insurance
• Private medical insurance
• Sick pay
• Work from home
• Flexitime