Principal Integration and System Validation Engineer

MBDA; West of England; Hybrid; GBP 45,000 - 55,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company bonus

Pension contributions

Overtime opportunities

Flexi Leave

Flexible working

Parental leave enhancements

Site facilities

Job summary

MBDA is recruiting for a Systems Integration and Proving Trials Engineer to support Ground Based Trials across the UK, Poland and USA. The role involves hands-on testing, qualification and acceptance activities with a broad set of stakeholders and customers.

The position offers hybrid working with on-site work typical due to testing demands, and provides benefits including a company bonus, pension contributions, and flexible leave options.

Qualifications

• Experience with V&V lifecycle and requirements management.

Responsibilities

• Plan and execute integration and proving trials across multiple environments.
• Analyze system behaviour across interfaces and report findings.
• Coordinate with partner teams and customer community to demonstrate integration.
• Maintain risk assessments and manage hardware/software assets for trials.
• Support safe and reliable trials including data collection and validation.

Skills

Systems integration

V&V lifecycle

Stakeholder communication

Risk assessment

Tools

DOORS & ETM

Wireshark

Network configuration

Job description

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the growing Integration and Systems Validation team supporting the Land Ceptor project with Ground Based Trials activities for a large export programme.

Salary: up to £50,000pa (depending on experience)

Dynamic (hybrid) working: typically, 3-5 days per week on-site, due to workload classification (depending on testing)

Security Clearance: British Citizen Only

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…

The opportunity:

A varied role that consists of a mix of functional testing, equipment qualification and acceptance, plus problem identification and resolution. An opportunity to get hands on experience with real equipment, and support testing and demonstrations of capability to MBDA's customer across sites in the UK, Poland and the USA. As well as working with other external stakeholders to deliver the wider weapon system to the customer.

We are looking for a broad-based Systems Integration and Proving Trials Engineer who will be able to:

• Work 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 MBDA Weapon Systems into a wider System of Systems environment
• Liaise with the systems engineering team and design teams to ensure adequate trials data is acquired and to investigate and resolve design issues.
• Analyse and report on in-depth analysis of the system behaviour across its internal and external interfaces.
• Deliver trials in a number of environments, including:
  • Lab-based integration and functional rigs;
  • System of Systems integration trials;
  • Acceptance trials;
  • Firing trials;
• Conduct and support failure investigations.
• Support safe and reliable trials, including developing and maintaining risk assessments, management of hardware and software assets and control of hardware and software configuration.

This is a UK-based role, with opportunities to travel abroad. This role provides a great opportunity to work in a fast-paced, customer-facing environment with guaranteed diverse work.

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.

What we're looking for from you:

• 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 with V&V lifecycle, requirement and configuration management and defect reporting.

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

• Wireshark network monitoring tool usage;
• Network systems and protocols, experience of switch and router configuration and management;
• DOORS & Engineering Test Management (ETM) requirements tools;
• 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

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