BAE Systems Employee Reviews

ProsGood place to work with good salary and work life balance and supportive colleagues.ConsVery top heavy management structure with constant restructuring exercises almost every other year leading to poor job security.

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Great babysitting job

Babysitting (Former Employee) - Baerami Creek NSW - 5 November 2023

Wonderful experience babysitting at BAE! cant recommend it enough ! Nice children and parents and good pay!! I loved it so much ! Great atmosphere and vibe

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Exciting Projects hampered by internal politics

Head of Department (Former Employee) - Adelaide Region SA - 23 April 2023

A company with great potential and exciting projects. Unfortunately held back by old management styles and lack of vision/planning. Frustrating processes and procedures with lack of interest from ELT to truly invest and resolve them.

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great opportunities and people

Graduate Engineer (Former Employee) - Adelaide Region SA - 16 March 2023

good place to develop and start your career however pay could be greater. good that they will take your interests into consideration when placing you into a rotation

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Worst employer i have worked for in my 20 year career span

Mid-Senior Engineer (Former Employee) - Garden Island NSW - 22 February 2023

- Extremely biased management- Rude co-workers and no work culture or ethic- Biased and discriminatory conduct towards employees by supervisors and senior colleagues- Big organisation but worst people and HR values- Even HR staff are not supportive towards the employees and favour the management

Pros

None

Cons

All listed above and much more.

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Electrician (Former Employee) - Henderson WA - 10 November 2022

Not much expected, not much given. For people who like easy money with not much stimulation. Salaries are very poor.career advancement is not so applicable for other companies.

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Falling behind its competitors

Leader (Former Employee) - Victoria - 14 October 2022

Your experience at BAE will depend on the project or functional area you’re in. Unfortunately for me, I was stuck in a mess of a project and a dysfunctional function. However, even if you’re in a good project you won’t be free of the political mess that is BAE senior management. This is the kind of company where working hard doesn’t necessarily bring any recognition or reward. As a company they talk the right talk around career development, progression, training opportunities, and flexible working but the consensus is that they are consistently poor on following through.Employee turnover has been very high over the last 2-3 years, and there are particular areas of the business that are worse than others. The leadership has refused to acknowledge the magnitude of the situation and uses all sorts of excuses for the stream of resignations. The truth is though that employees are sick of the politics, the lack of professional development and salary progression, and people have realised there are better leaders and employers in this sector.

Pros

Interesting project, some great workmates who are hardworking and talented, flexible work options is available depending on your job role

Cons

Lack of progression, salary increases are few and far between and require a lot of hoop jumping, poor company and project comms, poor leadership, poor recognition and reward programs, lack of leadership accountability

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Great reputable company

Assistant Project Manager (Current Employee) - Adelaide Region SA - 30 July 2022

BAE Systems is a very strong brand and good to get on your resume. The company has many opportunities on offer in many diverse areas of the business and different programs. Management overall is ok but could be more understanding with regards to different work arrangement requirements. Almost everyone is friendly and approachable. The culture is getting better but there is still a high turnover rate on the program which is a function of both the culture and the current stage of the program which is in its infancy.

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Good place to work

Engineer (Current Employee) - Adelaide Region SA - 8 April 2022

It is generally a good place to work. Everyone is ready to help you when you need them. I haven’t had any issues since working with BAE. I would recommend BAE to anyone looking to work with them.

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A challenging but rewarding work place a brand new digital shipyar with multi million dollar machines ready to deliver the next vessels.

Senior Production Engineer (Former Employee) - Adelaide Australia - 22 March 2022

The brand new digital shipyard is being redyed for the new class of vessel to be built, the first of its kind in the world and has the potential to be the best. The BAE team have the opportunity to make it so. Sorting the day to day issues of new technology and new multi million dollar machinery requires a problem solving mindset of the highest caliber.

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Productive and learningful experience

Electrical Engineer (Former Employee) - North Ryde NSW - 9 March 2022

I worked for three years. Extensive projects and strong team development. Perfect work/life balance. Excellent teamwork but needs efforts to grow in company.

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Best place to work in.

Engineer - Research and Development (Former Employee) - Melbourne, Victoria - 10 February 2022

Exceeded my expectations,the work is challenging and highly interesting.It's a pleasure to have worked in that kind of environment.The variety of work is incredible you can learn alot depending in which division you work at.

Pros

The on the job training is great, Subsidised meals from canteen.

Cons

Could have long hours but it was very rewarding not a bother.

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Good team environment

Warehouse Team Leader (Former Employee) - Townsville QLD - 14 January 2022

Job security and team work was excellent working environment was safe and on job training excellent company is always willing to do off site training like licences and safety training

Pros

Good pay

Cons

No Cons

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Old boys club and a toxic culture

DDG configuration officer (Former Employee) - Garden Island NSW - 16 September 2021

Toxic culture and a bully style management Management that likes to blame employees for any errors Blame culture with little support from management

Pros

Pay

Cons

Bully style management

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BAE do not know the value of nor do they know how to implement a decent, workable, viable, effective, and efficient QMS.

Not saying (Former Employee) - Not saying - 13 September 2021

They are extremely disorganized, and they do not listen to experts in their own fields. Nor do they also listen to the over-all Directors appointed, by Chief Government Representatives, including Government Ministers. In fact, for example, RAN Commodores, Admirals, and Captains repeated got frustrated with them, as they often did not know how to behave, nor how to best-serve the Prime Contracts they were selected to manage. To further confound and confuse the end-customer, they were disorganized in any attempt of theirs, to deliver whatever they were obliged to deliver, to the Customer. They did not know how to manage and run-through with Contracts they were awarded by Governments.

Pros

None whatsoever; please read my comments above.

Cons

They don't know how to implement a QMS; their staff also, generally have no focus on QMS.

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Was a good job

Storeman/Forklift Driver (Former Employee) - Edinburgh SA - 6 April 2021

Had a previous role in defence,so was a grounding to receive employment in this large international manufacturer.I would recommend this employer, i would have preferred to have a longer storeman role there

Pros

Company has massive capital

Cons

Bit stressful as job success is critical due to nature of end product

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If was great working for them.

Storeperson / BAE Systems (Former Employee) - Moorebank NSW - 9 August 2020

The staff was great to work for. We had tool box meetings every day. It was fast paced at times. We worked the hours we got the job done.We had alot of warehouses there and I worked in all Of them.

Pros

Alot of overtime worked

Cons

Some long hours.

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Great Company

Aircraft Maintenance Engineer (Former Employee) - Townsville QLD - 16 June 2020

Best company I have worked for, supportive culture of management which drives sustainability & continuation in a genuine attempt to find solutions and better ways of progressing current practices. (Not just a company with a few 'zero' slogans and dot point cardinal company values to recite)

Pros

Fantastic work/life balance & flexibility.

Cons

Can get the odd loose nut in management occasionally and a bit soft on underwhelming employees

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Productive and fun workplace that values work/life balance

Stores and Facilities Assistant (Former Employee) - Wagga Wagga NSW - 28 May 2020

My experience with BAE Systems was a pleasure. The company's commitment to staff well being, be it physical or emotional is to be commended. Staff morale was always high on the agenda with excellent staff support programs.

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Good

Aircraft Maintenance Technician (Former Employee) - Nowra NSW - 20 April 2020

Good company to work for good people good opertunities to advance.good wages and interesting work.great life style and career had a good job for 18 years

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Stressful workplace

Senior Electrical Engineering Officer - Maintenance Services (Former Employee) - Williamstown VIC - 24 March 2020

Stressful workplace with no leadership but it does have a tennis table...…travel is expected as their main area of work is engineering change on warships which are bases in WA and Sydney.

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