Actuation Systems Equipment Testing Lead

MBDA; Stevenage; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company bonus

Pension 14%

Overtime

Flexi Leave 15 days

Flexible working

Enhanced parental leave

Facilities

Healthcare Cash Plan

Job summary

MBDA is seeking an experienced testing engineer to lead testing strategy across the full lifecycle of Actuation Systems. You will build testing capability, drive compliance evidence, and generate design proving tests with data analysis.

Role involves 3-4 days on-site in Stevenage with hybrid working and BPSS clearance requirements. Salary £55,000–£60,000 plus bonuses and enhanced benefits, including pension, flexi leave, and paid overtime.

Qualifications

• Degree level qualification or equivalent experience.
• Strong leadership with testing strategy experience.
• Experience in dynamic systems, motors and sensors.

Responsibilities

• Lead testing strategy and execution across product lifecycle.
• Build testing capability; ensure compliance evidence for certification.
• Generate test specifications and perform data analysis.
• Collaborate with multi-disciplinary actuation teams.

Skills

Technical leadership

Dynamic systems testing

Motors and sensors

Electric motors & drive testing

dSPACE proficiency

MATLAB & Simulink

Requirements generation

Technical documentation

Process improvement

Communication & collaboration

Education

Degree level qualification or equivalent experience

Tools

DOORS

dSPACE

MATLAB

Simulink

Job description

The Actuation Systems Centre of Excellence Servo domain are looking for experienced testing engineer to lead and define testing strategies across the full lifecycle of our products.

Salary: Between £55,000 - £60,000 depending on experience

Dynamic (hybrid) working: 3-4 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 servo domain work within a multi-disciplinary design team responsible for the design, development and testing of Actuation Systems, which ensures customer performance requirements are successfully met.

This role focusses on contributing to the testing strategy and execution of tests for Actuation Systems which will include component level testing, as well as full actuation systems.

You will be responsible for building the testing capability within the team over a wide range of projects, promoting best practices and documentation delivery to ensure varying levels of compliance evidence can be sought towards product certification and the generation of analysis scripts and diagnosing fault conditions identified throughout the product lifecycle. The Actuation Systems Equipment Testing lead will be involved in finding innovative solutions throughout the testing phases and may be exposed to other activities within the servo role to strengthen the understanding and needs of the team

Your role will involve supporting the Design Verification Planning for Actuators ensuring sufficient coverage of tests contributing to compliance and have the ability to generate design proving test specifications at all levels with the appropriate data analysis methods to support. There will be interactions across the multi-functional actuation teams.

You will influence the current and future direction for testing Actuation Systems and work collaboratively with stakeholders.

What we're looking for from you:

• Degree level qualification or equivalent experience
• Technical leadership experience
• Strong understanding of dynamic systems and testing, which include mechanical systems, motors and sensors.
• Knowledge of electric motors and drive / communication strategies to support low level testing.
• dSPACE proficient or equivalent to enable testing
• Experienced user of MATLAB & Simulink for data analysis
• Experience with DOORs tools is desirable
• Requirements generation and definitions to support testing campaigns
• Technical documentation generation
• Proven experience of process improvement and being a part of a continuous improvement culture
• Strong communicator with the ability to influence, collaborate and network

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