Lead mission systems engineer (blackpool)

Job Title: Electronic Warfare (EW) Engineer

Location: Warton

Salary: £54,793+ depending on skills and experience

What you’ll be doing:

As a technical expert, you will get the opportunity to develop the next generation of Electronic Warfare (EW) systems across the engineering lifecycle, from requirements through to design, development and implementation

The successful candidate would be expected to provide technical leadership and expertise in the development of EW Systems for the FCAS & GCAP Programme. Main responsibilities will involve:

* Developing EW concepts, which meet the customer need / requirement, for the FCAS/GCAP system with international partners (Japan & Italy)
* Acting as the primary Mission Systems point of contact for EW Systems within the FCAS/GCAP Programme, providing oversight / technical leadership to supplier activities in this domain area
* Liaising with the international MoDs to advise during the development of EW requirements
* Executing plans to deliver and undertake oversight / review of performance assessments of EW systems to support programme gate reviews, SRR and SFR
* Providing technical oversight to the development of the EW requirements set being modelled in an MBSE toolset
* Planning for and technical oversight / delivery of supplier activities to develop EW systems through to PDR / CDR maturity
* EW System Design / development with associated areas, including Mission Data, Through Life Support, Safety-Airworthiness, Security, RF Interoperation, Electro-Magnetic Engineering & Test
* Planning and implementation for EW System Integration, simulation, synthetics and test

Your skills and experiences:

Essential

* Experience of working with EW and/or DASS and/or Radio Frequency (RF) systems
* Experience of leading and managing engineering teams

Desirable:

* A degree in a STEM subject or equivalent relevant experience
* Systems engineering and engineering lifecycle experience
* Knowledge of systems engineering methods and tools (e.g. UML/SysML, MoDAF, MOOD, Matlab)
* Experience of developing mission systems and associated domain knowledge
* Ability to work in a changing and evolving environment
* Innovative approach to problem solving
* Ability to work in a multi-partner / multi-national environment
* Holding a UK driving licence (or working towards obtaining one)

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.