Here at MBDA, our Land Ceptor Systems Engineering team is growing to help the British and Polish Armies fulfil the full potential of the system and extend and tailor the capability for existing and emerging export contracts. The role offers a salary of up to £57,000 depending on experience. Work is dynamic (hybrid): three days per week on-site due to workload classification. Candidates must hold British citizenship or be a dual UK national with British citizenship. All successful candidates will be required to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS).
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%
- Paid overtime opportunities
- Flexi Leave: up to 15 additional days
- Flexible working arrangements welcomed
- Enhanced parental leave: up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave – enhancements for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments available
- Facilities: subsidised meals, free car parking and more
- Healthcare Cash Plan: option to claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, health and wellbeing
The opportunity
The recent commencement of the NAREW export contract for Poland, alongside the support of the British Army system and the production of systems for other contracts, has created a need for the Land Ceptor functional development team to grow and support this varied portfolio. As a Systems Engineer, you will be involved in:
- Helping the customer understand and capture their needs
- Deriving suitable system, subsystem and software requirements to meet those needs
- Informing product line approaches to allow a common suite of products to meet different customer needs
- Determining and managing processes and procedures to manage change in a controlled way
- Acting as customer for specific software items
What we're looking for from you
- Requirements management and derivation experience, ideally in defence
- Experience with system engineering tools such as DOORS/DOORS NG/Rhapsody
- Ability to disseminate/share technical information to customers in an understandable manner
- Engineering change control and management experience
- Ability to initiate, undertake and drive trade studies and system development activities
- Experience developing complex systems, ideally in defence
- Ability to communicate architectures and ideas at all levels
- Strong stakeholder management skills
- Experience working with product lines would be beneficial
This role will have real impact on what we deliver to our customers, past and future, and in return will provide the opportunity to work independently across the company, tackle genuine engineering challenges and grow professionally.
