Functional UK V&V Lead - MBDA : Job Details

The MBDA, 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 (delete line if not applicable).

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…

The opportunity:

To lead the UK programme for the functional systems engineering team. This role reports into the Land Ceptor Chief Systems Engineer via the Certification Lead, working to deliver the UK MRAD programme and support the In-Service Support team in supporting and maintaining the Land Ceptor product. Key to this role is the ability to lead a growing team of systems engineers to ensure certification deliveries timescales are met under challenging conditions.

With an in-service capability to support and capability enhancements to deliver, across a number of customers, Land Ceptor is a great place to build breadth of experience or to put your existing skills and experience to use to deliver military capability. 

The successful candidate will be comfortable adapting themselves and their approach to the challenge at hand; they will maintain vision amongst complexity and be adept at communicating this vision to drive, engage and influence partners.

The role will have real impact on what we deliver to our customers, current and future, and in return will provide you: the opportunity to work independently across the company; genuine engineering challenges, and broad professional growth.

What we're looking for from you:

Requirements for this role is to have experience of systems engineering process and managing a team to deliver Certificates of Design into Land Ceptor programmes.

Key is the ability to adapt to new challenges assessing evidence from various sources, experience of DOORS, requirements management processes and ability to organise and manage a small team of systems engineers  to ensure they are efficiently working to meet the plans.

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