Future Products Missile Architect

MBDA UK Ltd; Bristol; Hybrid; GBP 55,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense organization in Bristol is seeking a Missile Architect for the Future Products team. This role involves defining product structures and engaging in architectural trade studies. Candidates should have relevant engineering knowledge and enjoy collaborative environments. The position offers flexible working arrangements and significant bonuses based on performance.

Benefits

Bonus of up to 21%

Pension contributions up to 14%

Enhanced parental leave

Flexible working arrangements

Subsidised meals and free parking

Qualifications

• Ability to manage a broad range of activities.
• Solid understanding of missiles, subsystems, and platforms.
• Desire to utilize new techniques in design.

Responsibilities

• Define overall product structure and interfaces.
• Facilitate architectural trade studies.
• Support technology application assessments.

Skills

Collaborative environment

Confidence in uncertainty

Project management

Systems Engineering knowledge

Mechanical and/or electronic design experience

Education

Degree level education or equivalent experience

Job description

Bristol

As a Missile Architect within the newly formed Future Products team you will be working to shape the next generation of MBDA products.

Salary

Circa £65,000 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. 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: Bonus of up to 21% of base salary
• Pension: Maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
• 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

Within Future Products, your role will be to help realise the system design intent into a feasible and credible product concept that balances the requirements placed upon it. This will include:

• Define overall product structure, interfaces and architecture
• Facilitate architectural trade studies
• Support deployment of generic policies i.e. GMA, modularity & re-use, design for assembly
• Assess technology application and maturity using design assessment tools
• Support product technical and programme phase reviews

You'll get to work with and have wide exposure to a wide range of stakeholders, e.g. S&BD, Future Systems, MOD, DSTL, key industrial partners. Alongside working on new technology to develop brand new capabilities and designs, making this role an exciting prospect.

You’ll have the opportunity to shape and grow in line with your personal development, with an opportunity to lead a small and multidiscipline team. It’s an interesting role that will provide you with a deep understanding of early phase Missile and weapon system design.

What we’re looking for from you:

• Ideally educated to degree level, or equivalent experience
• Comfortable working in a collaborative environment
• The confidence to embrace the uncertain nature of early concept development
• Desire to utilise new techniques and methods to develop concepts and system trade studies
• Ability to manage a broad range of activities and experience of planning and task management
• A solid understanding of missiles, subsystems and platforms
• Relevant Systems Engineering knowledge
• Ideally experienced in mechanical and/or electronic design (but broader engineering fields relevant, e.g. Aero, Control, Structures, System Design, Software etc.)

Our Business

MBDA is a leading defence organisation. We are proud of the role we play in supporting the Armed Forces who protect our nations. We partner with governments to work together towards a common goal, defending our freedom.

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