Requirements Lead

MBDA; West of England; On-site; GBP 53,000 - 57,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Company bonus up to £2,500

Pension up to 14%

Overtime opportunities

Flexi Leave up to 15 days

Flexible working

Enhanced parental leave

Facilities: subsidised meals, free car

Healthcare Cash Plan

Job summary

MBDA Bristol is seeking a leader to drive the Engineering Design Record (EDR) delivery within the UK Portfolio. You will work with a broad range of stakeholders across projects, navigating a fast-paced environment to deliver tangible outputs for MBDA and MOD.

This role involves leading a small team, shaping engineering activities, and enhancing portfolio coherence. A flexible, proactive mindset is required to manage priorities and deliver value across programmes.

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Systems Engineering approaches and practices.
• Ability to engage with multiple stakeholders and build effective relationships.
• Ability to lead and motivate small teams and develop junior colleagues.
• Ability to work with, influence, and challenge senior MOD/MBDA management.
• Flexible mindset to tackle problems with innovative solutions.
• Ability to take a big-picture view and focus on key tactical issues.
• Experience with requirement management and system design/trade analyses.

Responsibilities

• Lead the delivery of the Engineering Design Record (EDR) within the UK Portfolio.
• Influence and shape engineering activities across multiple projects in a high-visibility role.
• Collaborate with the Portfolio Management Team to evolve processes and system coherence across the UK portfolio.
• Potentially travel within the UK to MBDA sites and present work to the Joint MOD/MBDA Portfolio Engineering Working Group.

Skills

Systems engineering

Stakeholder engagement

Leadership

DOORS knowledge

Autonomy

Tools

DOORS

Job description

Bristol

Salary: Between £53,000 - £57,000 depending on experience

Dynamic (hybrid) working: Typically 2 days per week on-site, due to workload classification

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
• 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.

The opportunity:

An exciting opportunity has arisen within the Portfolio Systems team to lead the delivery of the Engineering Design Record (EDR) and associated activities.

This is a high visibility, stakeholder rich role with an opportunity to influence and shape one of the key engineering activities across the UK Portfolio. You'll work with a broad range of stakeholders across multiple projects, navigating a fast-paced environment while delivering tangible outputs to MBDA and MOD. This role offers an excellent opportunity to challenge yourself, lead a small team and packages of work, broaden your strategic understanding and build a deeper understanding of MBDA and MOD business practices, whilst developing your knowledge of MBDA's products and the wider Portfolio.

The Portfolio Management Team (PMT) provides a leading role in evolving the way MBDA develops and delivers our products in a joint environment with MOD. The Portfolio seeks to provide greater levels of capability within the UK budget, with increased UK sovereign control and better value for money than our competitors.

The Portfolio Systems team supports the development of the engineering coherence through Commonality, Modularity and Reuse across the UK Portfolio of Complex Weapons - current and future - by managing and delivery of the Portfolio Engineering Design Record (EDR). This includes engaging with senior stakeholders across the business to define, agree and verify the Portfolio requirements on Programmes, Equipment Teams, Centres of Excellence and Functional teams.

The role will allow the individual to influence the direction of travel and broaden their skillset through a range of supporting Systems Team work packages; such as Intellectual Property, Test & Evaluation Facilities, MBDA Supplier Databases, Systems Studies exploring technical trades-offs, etc.

There will be opportunities to develop and lead junior colleagues and present your work at the Joint MOD/MBDA Portfolio Engineering Working group as well as travel within the UK to other MBDA sites. The successful individual will also get exposure and opportunities to support wider Portfolio factors such as platform integration, financial efficiencies, operational performance, exportability, obsolescence and Freedom of Action to the UK MOD.

What we're looking for from you:

• A general understanding of weapon systems, missile systems and design process throughout a product's life cycle.
• Is comfortable engaging with multiple stakeholders and building effective working relationships across the Portfolio enterprise and the wider business.
• Ability to lead and motivate small teams, including developing and empowering junior colleagues.
• Ability to work with, influence, and where required, challenge senior MOD and MBDA management.
• A flexible mindset, able to tackle problems and develop genuinely innovative solutions for a given challenge.
• An ability to take a big picture view and then select the key tactical issues to focus in on.
• Knowledge of Systems Engineering approaches and practices, ideally familiar with using DOORS, and in particular requirement management.
• Ability to develop and work a System Design / Requirement Trade, including requirement acceptance with stakeholders.
• Ability to operate with autonomy and effectively manage their priorities when presented with issues from multiple stakeholders.

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