Senior CAD Configuration Engineer

Job Title\: Senior CAD Configuration Engineer

Location\: Cowes - onsite

Referral Scheme\: £5000

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.

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\:

As a CAD Configuration Engineer, you will support and evolve our engineering design ecosystem in the mechanical CAD domain.

This role sits at the intersection of engineering, IT, and process optimisation—driving the effective deployment, integration, and governance of tools including Teamcenter and Siemens NX.

You will play a key role in enhancing design workflows, ensuring data integrity across the domain, and enabling engineering teams to deliver high-quality, integrated products efficiently.

Core duties\:

• Applying engineering design principles to develop and detail radar mechanical components, sub-assemblies, and assemblies using Siemens NX and Teamcenter
• Maintaining expertise in Siemens NX, Teamcenter, and related engineering tools, ensuring compliance with standards, best practices, and effective configuration management
• Collaborating with engineers, designers, and suppliers to support system development, including MCAD–ECAD integration and COTS component selection and validation
• Creating and managing accurate 3D models, drawings, and engineering documentation, ensuring traceability, data integrity, and high attention to detail
• Promoting safe working practices while supporting continuous improvement, standardisation, and efficient reuse of engineering designs and data

Essential skills\:

• You holds a Mechanical or Electro-mechanical qualification to HNC level
• You have experience contributing towards design process improvements, automation and standardisation across MCAD environment
• You can assist in troubleshooting and resolving tooling, modelling and data integration issues
• You contribute to the development of a digitally integrated engineering environment linking NX, Teamcentre and Cadence

The BAE Systems RADAR Mechanical Design Team\:

You will be working as a Senior CAD Configuration 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.

Join us and help shape the future of Radar technology!

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.

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\: 28th July 2026