Contract Analyst I - Home Based in High Wycombe

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Location: High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

Position Role Type: Onsite

Benefits:

• Competitive salary
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
• 6 times salary 'Life Assurance' with pension
• 25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary)
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others
• Enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave

Work Culture:

• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.
• Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!
• Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.
• Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role).

About us:

At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence.

As a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom, Raytheon UK helps to solve our customers' toughest challenges. We are a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace.

Role & Responsibilities:

The Raytheon NORSS team are looking for an Orbital Analyst to work within its operational Orbital Analyst team, performing Space Situational Awareness (SSA) and Space Domain Awareness (SDA) duties, to support the safety of civil and commercial satellite operations. Working with both national and international government stakeholders, the Orbital Analyst will be responsible for monitoring UK-licenced objects and critical spacecraft and providing timely technical analysis and outputs to support the decision making of key stakeholders.

This role involves working at an operational Orbital Analyst centre where day to day duties include but are not limited to; ensuring the safety of UK-licenced and critical spacecraft involved in high-interest events by monitoring, evaluating, and reporting on key space events (such as re-entering objects, collision avoidance activities and fragmentations of objects). This role will also provide the opportunity to develop new astrodynamics software capabilities and analytical tools in support of UK led Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) programmes.

Required experience:

• Relevant experience in the space industry focused on Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST), Space Situational Awareness (SSA) and/or space systems with an understanding of Space Weather, SSA and SST modelling and analysis.
• Understanding of software development lifecycles, workflow procedures and architectures to design, develop, test and validate bespoke SSA tools for both internal and external projects.
• Excellent communication skills (written and oral), to articulate and communicate technical detail clearly and concisely with colleagues, customers and partner organisations at all levels.
• Able to prepare detailed reports and present where necessary.
• Able to work effectively and with initiative both independently and as part of a team in a way that is collaborative and adaptable.
• Broad understanding and experience in data analysis and analytical software utilisation.
• Experience in the development of automated scripts and/or simple software products.
• Effective time management and capable of managing multiple work streams.
• Willing and eligible to hold SC security clearance and obtain DV clearance if required.
• A bachelor's degree in a relevant field (physics, mathematics, engineering or science).

Desirable experience:

• Extensive experience in working in the SDA/SSA/SST space domain and expertise in conducting collision avoidance analysis, orbit determination, fragmentation and re-entry analysis in an operational setting.
• Demonstrable technical expertise in the technical capability and tasking of sensors providing data to support operational collision avoidance, orbit determination, fragmentation and re-entry analysis across all orbital regimes.
• Technical understanding of the end-to-end chain of ground-based and space-based SST sensor development.
• Confident in providing technical demonstrations of capabilities to both internal and external parties.
• Capable of leading a team effectively and professionally to deliver results.
• A strong understanding of celestial mechanics, astrodynamics and atmospheric physics.
• Skilled in one or more of the following programming languages: Fortran, C/C++, Java, Matlab, Python, SQL, Java-script.
• Experienced in the development and utilisation of SST/SSA related computer simulations.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.