Here at MBDA, our Land Ceptor Systems Engineering team is growing in order to help the British and Polish Armies fulfil the full potential of the system and to extend and tailor the capability for existing and emerging export contracts.
Salary: Up to £57,000 depending on experience
Dynamic (hybrid) working: 3 days per week on-site due to workload classification
Security Clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship.
Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.
What we can offer you:
Company bonus: Up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
Overtime: opportunity for paid overtime
Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days
Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave -enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more...
Healthcare Cash Plan: The Healthcare Cash Plan benefit provides the option to claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, health and wellbeing and more. The opportunity:
The recent commencement of new contracts, the Land Ceptor functional development team needing to grow to support this varied portfolio.
There are a number of roles within the Land Ceptor team working for the Chief Systems Engineer. As a Systems Engineer within the Functional development team you could be involved in one of the following areas (with opportunity to get experience across all areas):
Working as part of the requirements team to take customer requirements and deriving suitable system, subsystem and software requirements, systems studies and support system design
Working as part of the certification team to capture and review evidence, conduct technical investigations and support the delivery of Certificate of Designs to enable customer deliveries
Working with the Poland programme lead to organise bids, manage and support the programme delivery activities. This will involve everything from and stakeholder engagement to helping manage and deliver the overall Poland programmes in the functional area.What we're looking for from you:
General systems engineering experience (ideally in a defence based context)
Requirements management and derivation experience
Experience of system engineering tools e.g. DOORS/DOORS NG/Rhapsody
Ability to disseminate/share technical information to customers in an understandable manner
Engineering change control and management experience
Ability to initiate/undertake and drive trade studies and system development activities
Experience of developing complex systems
Ability to communicate architectures and ideas at all levels
Strong stakeholder management skills
Experience of working with product lines would be beneficialThis role will have real impact on what we deliver to our customers, current and future, and in return will provide you with the opportunity to work independently across the company, genuine engineering challenges and broad professional growth.
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