Lead, Physical Domain V&V for LDEW Systems

MBDA France société par actions simplifiée; Bolton; Hybrid; GBP 51,000 - 63,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company bonus up to £2,500

Pension up to 14% total

Paid overtime

Flexi Leave up to 15 days

Flexible working

Enhanced parental leave up to 26 weeks

Site facilities and parking

Healthcare Cash Plan

Job summary

MBDA France is seeking an experienced Verification and Validation Lead for the physical domain to coordinate the DragonFire system’s physical functionality, performance, and constraints with the weapons system team, ensuring product compliance with system requirements and project commitments.

The role involves certifying the DragonFire physical design across components, addressing environmental & EMC performance, power use, storage, and transportability, and coordinating internal and external

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 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.

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 Application Lifecycle Management.
• Lead the technical progress meetings and milestone reviews with the supplier.
• Understand sub-contractor management both internal and external.
• Understand and contribute to 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 strategies.
• Design 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.

Skills

Systems engineering

Requirements engineering

Hardware design

Test procedures

Technical reporting

Configuration management

Job description

MBDA France is seeking an experienced Verification and Validation Lead for the physical domain to coordinate the DragonFire system’s physical functionality, performance, and constraints with the weapons system team, ensuring product compliance with system requirements and project commitments.

The role involves certifying the DragonFire physical design across components, addressing environmental & EMC performance, power use, storage, and transportability, and coordinating internal and external