Senior HVAC Designer

Job Title: Senior HVAC Designer

Location: Portsmouth Naval Base - We offer a range of flexible working arrangements. Please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role

Referral Scheme: £ 2000

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.

What you’ll be doing:

Deliver design solutions in line with the design intent, ensuring consideration of through life stakeholders (e.g. operations, commissioning, support, RN)

Coach and assure team members on design best practice and advise on complex design matters

Checker of all engineering outputs (Including BOM) from within the team and value stream in line with the detail design Quality Management Process/System

Support the principal in the identification of relevant training required for team members to ensure that capability standards are achieved and maintained

Perform Key Technical Roles within the Design Organisation when required such as DOQA & Change Impact Assessor

Engage regularly with key Detail Design stakeholders in engineering and wider supporting functions

Focal Point within the team for discipline specific tasks ensuring best practice is adopted by team members

Your skills and experiences:

HNC/HND qualified, in a technology, engineering or science related discipline

HVAC or Auxiliary Systems experience is desirable

Ship Building experience is desirable

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 BAE Systems Design Services HVAC Team:

The BAE Systems Design Services HVAC Team consists of 15 engineers, that develop and delivering HVAC design guidance's, testing, commissioning and fault finding for all current naval platforms based in Portsmouth Naval Base.

As a Senior HVAC Design Engineer, you will have the skills and experience for your primary role of supporting a defined range of detail design activities in line with all relevant processes and quality requirements, supplying advice and support to operations and other functions and ensuring defined objectives are achieved whilst continually maintaining quality and service requirements.

This is an exciting new opportunity, with opportunities of progression and growth within the business. It is also an opportunity to be a part of a dynamic team with varied work and different challenges.

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.

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: 7th November 2025 -Interviews will take place w/c 17th November