Systems Certification & Verification Engineer

MBDA S.A.S.; Stevenage; Hybrid; GBP 48,000 - 57,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading defense organization in Stevenage seeks a dynamic individual for a role focusing on managing certification and verification activities for the Sea Ceptor maritime air defense system. You will collaborate across teams to review subsystems, generate compliance documents, and handle project management tasks. The position offers a competitive salary of up to £57,000, alongside flexible working options and various employee benefits, including a company bonus and generous leave entitlements.

Benefits

Up to £2,500 company bonus

Pension contributions up to 14%

Paid overtime opportunities

Flexi Leave up to 15 additional days

Enhanced parental leave benefits

Health cash plan

Qualifications

• Experience in formal verification and certification processes.
• Ability to work proactively across multiple programmes.
• Knowledge in the use of DOORS is essential.

Responsibilities

• Review subsystem evidence and outputs for Systems activities.
• Generate non-compliance and Certification updates.
• Create compliance evidence and certification documentation.

Skills

Formal verification and certification processes

Proactive and flexible working

Knowledge of DOORS

Interpersonal and influencing skills

Ability to handle changing priorities

Job description

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. Individual may be involved in:

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., Employees receive 25 days of paid annual leave per calendar year, in addition to all statutory and public holidays.

After 5, 10 and 15 years of service, an additional day of annual leave is added to your allowance at each of these milestones. You can also enjoy more time off by purchasing up to an additional five days holiday through payroll.

We trust our people to agree, within their teams, where and when they can be most effective. Our Dynamic Working policies allow individuals great levels of flexibility around the hours they work and where they work. Depending on your role and function, this may include options for paid overtime, dynamic leave (time in lieu) and more.

Qualifications

• 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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Our MBDA Retirement Savings Plan is a 'Defined Contribution' plan in the Mercer Master Trust. The standard contributions are 4% of an employee's base salary and 6% employer contributions. You can increase both employee and employer contributions by up to 2%.

Financial Awareness - Employees have access to free financial webinars hosted throughout the year, along with access to a financial education website which provides plenty of useful hints, tips and guidance on managing financial wellness.

Share Incentive Plan - Acquire shares in our UK Shareholder, BAE Systems PLC, the scheme is tax efficient on shares purchased.

Mortgage Advice - As part of our financial wellbeing initiative employees can access free of charge mortgage advice and webinars.

Season Ticket Loan - Employees can borrow the value of public transport season ticket for bus or train journeys to and from work and spread the cost over 12 months.

Critical Illness - To help reduce the financial impact after being diagnosed with a critical illness, employees receive a tax-free lump sum payment that can be used for any purpose including covering medical expenses, adjustments to lifestyle and more.

Employee Assistance Programme - The Employee Assistance Programme is free, independent, confidential and is available 24 hours a day/365 days a year. Employees have access to short-term counselling (which includes up to 8 structured face to face, telephone or virtual sessions).

Voluntary Private Medical Insurance - Private Medical Insurance offers three healthcare plans to suit your individual requirements for you and your family. Funded Private Medical Insurance - Eligible employees (Grade C & Above) are enrolled as standard into the company funded Private Medical Insurance benefit. Dental Insurance - The Dental Insurance benefit provides the option to claim cash back on everyday dental expenses such as, minor treatments, routine examinations, restorative treatment and more. There are six levels of cover available, with each level providing increased claim limits. 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. There are six levels of cover available, with each level providing increased claim limits. Healthcare and Leisure - The Healthcare and Leisure benefit provides the option to claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as medical fees, dentist fees, opticians and also provides access to special deals and concessions on sporting and recreational facilities.

Healthworks Gym Membership - The Healthworks on-site gym at our Stevenage site offers a range of facilities and equipment, alongside a variety of classes available during the week. Annual Gym Membership - Take advantage of discounted membership at over 3,600 of the UK's leading gym chains, leisure centres, hotel health clubs, independent gyms, boot camps and yoga studios.

The Club -The Club provides a fantastic opportunity to enjoy great social activities - from theatre trips, days out, to sporting activities.

We are proud to be a nationally recognised employer at MBDA. We have received a range of employer awards including Glassdoor Best Places to Work 2022; Gold awards from Investors in People, the 5% Club, and Armed Forces Covenant. We are also currently ranked #1 in the UK's Best Big Companies to Work For 2022 league table, as well as #1 for Manufacturing.

Salary & Benefits

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.

• 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.

We recognise that having or adopting a child is a significant life event for our employees and as a family friendly employer we offer a range of enhanced family leave provisions to support employees before, during and after a period of leave. Our 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. We also offer 2 weeks enhanced pay for paternity leave, and neonatal care leave for up to 12 weeks where a period of extended hospital care is required after birth. Employees also have access to support whilst undergoing fertility testing and treatments.

Lifestyle

Lifestyle - Discounts & Vouchers. Lifestyle - Discounts & Vouchers Discounts - The Discounts platform includes a great range of features such as: discounts, instant vouchers, reloadable cards, easy saver cards, cashback, mobile app and Wellbeing Centre. Costco - Permanent employees of MBDA qualify for Costco's individual membership. Technology Vouchers - Purchase the latest gadgets and white goods up to the value of £2,500 and spread the cost over 12 months. Charity Donations - Donate up to five charities each month, with full tax relief on all donations. MyCar Scheme - The MBDA MyCar Scheme offers employees the opportunity to access up to two new vehicles via a salary sacrifice arrangement including an all-inclusive package. Holiday Purchase - Purchase up to 5 days' extra holiday whilst making tax and National Insurance savings, spreading the cost over 12 months.

Security Clearance

Security Clearance All employees at MBDA are required to hold UK Security or BPSS Clearance.