Systems Certification & Verification Engineer

MBDA UK Ltd; Stevenage; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense organization is seeking a Systems Engineer in Stevenage to deliver certification & verification activities for the Sea Ceptor Weapon Systems. This role involves task management and cross-disciplinary collaboration to ensure timely, quality compliance documentation. Candidates should have experience in formal certification processes, a focus on delivery, and must be familiar with DOORS. The position offers a competitive salary up to £57,000 and hybrid working options.

Benefits

Company bonus up to £2,500

Pension contributions of up to 14%

Paid overtime opportunities

Up to 15 additional leave days

Enhanced parental leave up to 26 weeks

Healthcare Cash Plan

Fantastic site facilities

Qualifications

• Experience in formal verification and certification processes.
• Ability to work proactively across multiple programmes.
• Effective team player with influencing skills.

Responsibilities

• Review subsystem evidence and outputs for Systems activities.
• Manage task planning, budgeting, and management for activities.
• Generate compliance documentation and certification evidence.

Skills

DOORS knowledge

Team player

Interpersonal skills

Flexibility

Systems Engineering lifecycle appreciation

Job description

Stevenage

Sea Ceptor Weapon Systems team is expanding and seeks a Systems Engineer to deliver certification & verification activities to support multiple customers.

Salary: Up to £57,000 depending on experience

Dynamic (hybrid) working: 2-3 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.

The Opportunity

Sea Ceptor is a very successful, growing, innovative, high profile maritime air defence system that has secured multiple UK and export contracts. Pivotal to these roles is enabling the delivery of Sea Ceptor to multiple customers concurrently, whilst managing adaptations for an increasing number of export customers.

This role is within the Weapon Systems Design & Verification team, delivering Certification & Verification activities to support multiple customers (both export and domestic) within Sea Ceptor. This will consist of task planning, budgeting and management to ensure the activities are completed on time, cost and quality.

Responsibilities

• Review of subsystem evidence and outputs to enable Systems activities.
• Non-compliance generation and Certification and Modification register updates.
• Creation of system level compliance evidence and certification documentation e.g. Compliance Matrices and Certificates of Design.
• Task management of Verification and Validation Activities.
• Generation of documentation (e.g. Trials Requirement Documents and Product Trials Clearance Certificates) and closure of Reviews (e.g. Regression Test Panels) to enable trials and evidence collation to occur.

What we're looking for

• An appreciation of the Systems Engineering lifecycle, specifically with proven experience in formal verification and certification processes.
• A keen delivery focus, enabled by an ability to work proactively and flexibly across a number of variant programmes for which relative priorities can change quickly.
• Knowledge in the use of DOORS is essential.
• An effective team player with strong interpersonal and influencing skills, essential to working as part of a multi-disciplinary team and in building cohesion in the relationships between the Systems team and various interfacing teams.
• An ability to respond quickly when programme priorities change.

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