Job Title: Senior Mechanical Designer
Location: Isle of Wight, Cowes – Full time onsite
We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements - please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role
Grade: GG10
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.
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Role Description:
As a Senior Mechanical Designer, you will apply extensive CAD design expertise to develop detailed 2D and 3D design solutions for complex components, assemblies and systems. Working within a multi-disciplinary engineering team, you will transform conceptual information into manufacture-ready design packages, supporting products through the full lifecycle from design and production to testing and delivery. You'll collaborate closely with manufacturing teams and suppliers to drive efficient production, identify improvements, and manage engineering changes through a robust change control process, ensuring high-quality and cost-effective solutions are delivered.
Core duties:
- Create 3D solid modelled designs, for a wide range of products from small components to large complex sub-systems.
- Create conceptual design schemes from engineering information.
- Liaise with sub-contract manufacturers and suppliers.
- Create detailed manufacturing data at component and assembly levels
- Provide input into engineering estimates
- Provide post-delivery support and resolve obsolescence issues.
- Proficient in the use of SAP PDM tool for maintaining and updating design data.
- Mentoring individuals or junior members of the team and providing technical leadership
- Potential Line management responsibilities
Essential Skills:
- Currently operating in a senior design role with extensive industry experience.
- Mechanical or Electro-Mechanical qualification to HNC/HND level, or equivalent practical experience.
- Technical responsibility for the production of CAD drawings within a major project and/or delivery of design activities across multiple products and programmes.
- Extensive experience using 2D and 3D CAD design and draughting tools, preferably Siemens NX.
- Experience leading and developing teams within a line management capacity.
The Mechanical Design Team:
The Mechanical Design Team provide Mechanical Computer Aided Design Services to the entire portfolio of Radar Products. Our rich radar heritage and vast experience, together with our constantly evolving technology and expertise, enable us to provide a world-class service. We provide and maintain cutting-edge radar capability, cost-effective solutions that have been proven time and again in extreme environments and harsh operational conditions.
We continue to invest in the development of innovative radar technologies, pushing the boundaries of defence capability, helping our Armed Forces operate effectively in rapidly evolving complex environments and reinforcing our position as leaders in military radar.
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 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?
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: 24th November 2026
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