DragonFire Physical Domain V&V lead

MBDA; Stevenage; Hybrid; GBP 51,000 - 63,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company bonus up to £2,500

Pension 14% max

Paid overtime

Flexi leave 15 days

Flexible working

Enhanced parental leave

Subsidised meals

Free car parking

Healthcare cash plan

Job summary

MBDA, a leading defence organisation in Stevenage, seeks a Verification & Validation Lead for the DragonFire physical domain. You will coordinate cross-functional V&V activities, certify environmental, EMC, power usage and transportability aspects, and manage external suppliers to ensure system requirements alignment.

You will lead verification planning, manage design changes, track defects, and support documentation updates while maintaining regulatory and safety standards.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of systems engineering principles, processes and practices.
• Appreciation of requirements engineering at system, subsystem or component level.
• Knowledge associated with the design and build of hardware.
• Awareness of test procedures required to verify products and gathering of evidence for certification.
• Confidence in presenting technical engineering information and promoting decision making.
• Experience of technical report writing and use of configuration management tools.

Responsibilities

• Provide physical design compliance statements and CM for review at system level.
• Design change impact assessment.
• Log and track defects found during V&V activities and collaborate with development teams to resolve them.
• Manage Design Verification Plan and requirements in ALM.
• Lead technical progress meetings and milestone reviews with supplier.
• Understand sub-contractor management both internal and external.
• Contribute to design reviews (PDR/DDR/CDR) and development lifecycle activities.
• Manage schedule, cost, quality and performance metrics for work packages.
• Work within a multi-discipline engineering team (systems, mechanical, electrical, software).
• Apply mitigation strategies to limit technical risks and support verification activities.
• Uplift regulatory documentation such as CE marking and key technical publications.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements engineering

Hardware design knowledge

Test procedures for certification

Technical communication

Technical reporting & configuration mg

Job description

Stevenage

Are you prepared to join an outstanding team that is at the forefront of advanced technology? If you are a driven and experienced engineer looking for a chance to contribute to top-tier Laser Directed Energy Weapon (LDEW) systems, then we have the ideal position for you!

Salary

Up to £57,000 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.

The Opportunity:

The role of the verification and validation lead for the physical domain is to co-ordinate the overall physical functionality, performance and constraints of the DragonFire system with the weapons system team in order to ensure the consistency of the weapon system product with system requirements and project commitments.

This includes understanding, communicating and certifying all aspects of the DragonFire Physical Design for all system components, including:

• Environmental & EMC performance


• Power utilisation


• Storage & Transportability

The V & V lead will need to co-ordinate the work packages for both internal and external suppliers to develop certification strategies for the physical domain. Working with RMO's and DAs to ensure that DVP's have appropriate coverage.

This role will be focused on the physical certification aspects of the systems. Although an understanding of how these sub-systems work will also be required to support product delivery.

As an V and V lead, your main responsibilities will be:

• Provide physical design compliance statements and CM for review at system level


• Design change impact assessment


• Log and track defects found during V&V activities, and collaborate with development teams to resolve them.


• Manage Design Verification Plan and requirements in Application Lifestyle Management


• Lead the technical progress meetings and milestone reviews with the supplier


• Understand sub-contractor management both internal and external


• Understand and contribute to the key activities in the engineering development lifecycle such as design reviews (PDR/DDR/CDR)


• Manage schedule, cost, quality and performance metrics for assigned work packages


• Work within a multi-discipline engineering team (e.g. Systems, mechanical, electrical, software etc…)


• Limit technical risks through application of mitigation strategiesDesign reconciliation activities associated with design change, including generation of verification and validation strategies


• Uplift of other regulatory documentation such as CE marking


• Support uplift of key documentation, such as technical publications


• Responding to Customer queries with regard to product usage, interpretation of compliance, certification, etc.

What we're looking for from you:

• Knowledge of systems engineering principles, processes and practices


• Appreciation of requirements engineering at System, Subsystem or Component level


• Knowledge associated with the design and build of hardware


• Awareness of test procedures required to verify products and the gathering of evidence to enable certification.


• Confidence in presenting technical engineering information and promoting decision making


• Experience of technical report writing and use of configuration management tools

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