Land Ceptor Ground Integration Trials Lead

MBDA S.A.S.; Stevenage; Hybrid; GBP 53,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company bonus

Pension

Overtime

Flexi Leave

Flexible working

Parental leave enhancements

Site facilities

Healthcare cash plan

Job summary

MBDA is seeking a Trials Engineer to deliver Ground Integration Trials at our Stevenage site. You will own test artefacts, lead a small team through ground test events, and generate formal qualification reports.

You will plan trials with partner companies and customers to demonstrate integration and gather evidence for GBAD ground trials, ensuring smooth facilitation of events with external test houses. You will work with systems engineering and design teams to secure necessary data, investigate

Qualifications

• Experience with ground-based integration and proving.

Responsibilities

• Own test artefacts, ensuring coverage and configuration control.
• Lead a small team to conduct ground integration test events and review results.
• Produce formal reports for qualification period outcomes.
• Plan trials with project stakeholders to demonstrate integration and gather evidence for GBAD ground trials.
• Facilitate events with external test houses and stakeholders.
• Liaise with systems engineering and design to acquire trials data and resolve issues.
• Develop and maintain risk assessments and manage hardware/software assets and configuration.
• Understand security impacts on trial environments.

Skills

Verbal communication

Stakeholder management

Team leadership

Ground tests

EMC tests

Interoperability

Thermal trials

Configuration management

Defect reporting

Security awareness

Job description

We are looking for a broad-based Trials Engineer who will be able to deliver Ground Integration Trials. The role will include:

• Taking ownership of test artefacts, ensuring requirement coverage is achieved and configuration control is maintained.
• Leading a small team to conduct the ground integration test events and review the results generated by the conduct.
• Reporting on the progress of the testing as well as producing the formal report for the results of the qualification period.
• Working with stakeholders across the project, from within partner companies and from the customer community, to plan trials to demonstrate integration and gather evidence to qualify Land Ceptor from a Ground Trials perspective.
• Ensuring the successful facilitation of each event with stakeholders, including external test houses.
• Liaising with the systems engineering team and design teams to ensure adequate trials data is acquired and to investigate and resolve design issues.
• Supporting safe and reliable trials, including developing and maintaining risk assessments, management of hardware and software assets and control of hardware and software configuration.
• Having an understanding of security and its impacts on a trial environment.

This is a great opportunity to become a member of an expanding team delivering key aspects of the latest generation of GBAD system programmes and interfacing with the end Customer and User teams.

We are looking for an engineer with the following skills:

• Good verbal and written communication skills;
• Experience communicating at an appropriate level with a wide and varied range of both engineering and management stakeholders;
• Experience working within a large team, across multiple sites and with multiple departments;
• Experience working on ground-based integration and proving, particularly previous experience in some or all of the following: Trundle, EMC, Interoperability and Thermal trials;
• Experience with configuration management and defect reporting.

Experience in these areas would also be beneficial, though formal and on-the-job training will be available:

• Basic understanding of network / cable assembly drawings;
• Fault finding and route cause analysis at subsystem integration level;
• Experience in customer facing roles.

Our company: Peace is not a given, Freedom is not a given, Sovereignty is not a given

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. We are proud of our employee-led networks, examples include: Gender Equality, Pride, Menopause Matters, Parents and Carers, Armed Forces, Ethnic Diversity, Neurodiversity, Disability and more... We recognise that everyone is unique, and we encourage you to speak to us should you require any advice, support or adjustments throughout our recruitment process. Follow us on LinkedIn (MBDA), X (@MBDA_UK), Instagram (MBDA_UK) and Glassdoor or visit our MBDA Careers website for more information., Together. For the future of defence. We work with purpose, knowing that every advancement provides better, smarter and more effective defence capabilities to the UK and their allies. Regarded as one of the most trusted suppliers of defence solutions in Europe, we have a relationship with the UK military spanning back over 70 years. Whether it's designing a future concept for the British Army, managing the procurement of a missile component or harnessing their expertise in software in order to integrate one of our products on to the newest fighter jet, all of our employees are a part of delivering a more secure tomorrow.

Salary: Circa £53,000 - £57,000 depending on experience Dynamic (hybrid) working: 3-5 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 .