MBDA are looking to recruit a Functional Integration Engineer to their SPEAR team.
Salary: Up to £50,000 Depending on Experience
Dynamic (hybrid) working: This is an on-site role (Possible occasional opportunity to work from home)
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…
The opportunity:
Reporting to the SPEAR Head of Functional Integration, this role will involve the planning and conduct of integration and compatibility proving activities, and developing the in-depth knowledge of how the system works. The role builds good interpersonal skills, interfacing with the different Project customers to plan and achieve the key design verification and evidence through the maturity steps for the GF and qualification campaigns. Responsibilities include:
- Collaboration with the systems and design teams to generate test requirements to ensure comprehensive system level test coverage.
- Generation of test instructions, test reports and supporting safety documentation / processes.
- Integration of multiple variants of missile and launcher subsystems and weapon system integration in trials and operational configurations.
- Conduct proving test to demonstrate system design and robustness.
- Support integration of trials test equipment for use across proving activities.
- Coordination with design teams to diagnose problems and determine design solutions.
- Provide support to trials defect investigations and analysis of data as required
- Definition of test and trials equipment requirements.
What we're looking for from you:
The following skills are ‘ideal' but candidates with experience in a related role with complementary skills will also do well.
- Practical Experience of hardware/software integration and test activities.
- Demonstrated ability to work closely with other engineering teams – particularly Systems Design and Equipment Design teams.
- Electrical / electronics background / understanding.
- Logical approach to problem solving.
- Understanding of MBDA trials / test processes and procedures or standard principles for definition, management and reporting of trials test methods and certification.
- Experience of writing trials documentation and of working in DOORS.
- Understanding of technical interface documentation and protocols i.e. 1553.
- Practical experience using general commercial Lab test equipment
- Experience/knowledge of data analysis tools/methods.
- Experience or interest in python (or similar) scripting
Our company: Peace is not a given, Freedom is not a given, Sovereignty is not a given
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