Salary: Circa £42,000-£51,000 depending on experience
Dynamic (hybrid) working: 2-3 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.
- Private Medical Insurance: Eligible employees are enrolled as standard into the company funded Private Medical Insurance benefit.
This is an excellent opportunity to become a Sea Viper Systems focal point supporting the sustainment of Sea Viper capability. These work strands offer a wide variety in terms of scope of work in a dynamic and challenging environment.
The opportunity
Key work packages includes:
- Systems Focal Point for Sea Viper related technical queries supporting the In Service capability sustainment
- A Focal Point for all Technical Information and Advice Proposals
- Review the Sea Viper Technical Events Log for technical queries and safety related events;
- Maintain a suite of project specific processes;
- Ensuring technical correctness of the Sea Viper technical documentation (Interactive Electronic Technical Manuals);
- Support sub-system technical query resolution as required;
- Tasking as required from the Head of System Definition.
As the Sea Viper Systems Focal Point you will be responsible for the following:
- Managing technical aspects of Sea Viper Technical Events;
- Carrying out technical analyses and investigations of system-level issues and opportunities, including conduct of trade-off studies;
- Supporting the System Design verification and validation activities;
- Providing support to transversal activities (Safety, Security, EMC and Environmental);
- Delivering and managing the Project Specific Process Documents;
- Providing and/or overseeing technical support and troubleshooting responses;
- Generating technical reports to the Customer.
What we are looking from you (Desirable)
- General Weapon System Support background
- Engineering/ Technical background
- Understanding of sub-systems and interfaces
- Able to read and understand technical documentation
Our company: Peace is not a given, Freedom is not a given, Sovereignty is not a given
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