Physical Domain V&V Lead – Advanced Defense Tech

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

Benefits offered by this job

Company bonus: Up to £2,500

Pension: up to 14% total contribution

Overtime: paid overtime

Flexi Leave: up to 15 days

Flexible working

Enhanced parental leave: up to 26 wks

Facilities: subsidised meals and car-<

Healthcare Cash Plan

Job summary

MBDA is seeking an experienced V&V Lead for the DragonFire physical domain in Stevenage. You will coordinate physical functionality, performance and constraints with the weapons-system team to ensure product compliance with requirements and project milestones.

Role focuses on physical certification, coordinating internal/external suppliers, and contributing to design reviews while supporting product delivery and regulatory documentation.

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 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 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 presentation

Technical reporting

Configuration management

Tools

Configuration management tools

Job description

MBDA is seeking an experienced V&V Lead for the DragonFire physical domain in Stevenage. You will coordinate physical functionality, performance and constraints with the weapons-system team to ensure product compliance with requirements and project milestones.

Role focuses on physical certification, coordinating internal/external suppliers, and contributing to design reviews while supporting product delivery and regulatory documentation.