Product Technical Manager

Job Title: Product Technical Manager

Location: Towcester – on-site

Salary: £54,700+ depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

• Offer independent assessment and governance support to a wide variety of design, development and manufacturing programmes to ensure compliance with procedures, product safety, compliance with contractual, legal and regulatory requirements
• Agree and manage schedules for tailored ELCM design reviews and process confirmations in conjunction with the project management team to ensure the integration of technical and engineering activities across their projects to support product certification
• Chair design reviews and arrange for design certification with the ATS PTA or Engineering Authority as appropriate to contract
• Represent the business at quality audits, product integrity and sustainability forums, ensuring the quality and fitness for purpose of product designs, with appropriate trade-off between operational performance, environmental performance, affordability, producibility, and supportability
• Responsible for maintaining ATS tailored engineering processes within the local business management system including oversight of configuration control ensuring that records of all significant Product design decisions are retained
• Responsible for collating responses for both Engineering and Manufacturing assurance statements along with following up on any deficiency or improvement actions to ensure timely completion
• Ownership of continuous improvement initiatives within the Microwave Materials business to maximise efficiency, increase capacity and improve sustainability

Your skills and experiences:

Essential

• Time served or Degree qualified in a relevant Engineering / Scientific discipline, with significant amount of relevant industrial experience in a defence / security environment
• A reasonable domain knowledge covering some of the following:

–      Understanding of the Electromagnetic spectrum (RF/IR/EO)

–      RF antennas and sensing devices

–      Composite structures

–      Elastomeric Materials

–      Typical qualification standards and directives applicable to Air or Maritime platform products

–      Route cause analysis techniques

–      Product Safety Engineering techniques

–      Competent in the application of Lean Manufacture & Six Sigma techniques

–      Continuous professional development through BAE Systems training programmes or externally through recognised professional and technical bodies

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 Advanced Technology Solutions team:

The role will involve direct engagement with the Technology, Engineering and Manufacturing teams to provide governance support and independent assessment during the product lifecycle and to seek out opportunities for continuous improvement, process efficiencies and enhancing product safety.

The Product Technical Manager will also support and participate in manufacturing and product focussed Transformation programmes to deliver additional capacity and increase product consistency.

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 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: 1st July 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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