Head of Ground Trials CAMM Family

About the job

An exciting opportunity to support the delivery of the Ground Trials aspects associated with the growing CAMM Family of products.

Salary: Circa £60,000 depending on experience

Dynamic (hybrid) working: DW is possible through a close working team approach, with substantial presence needed on site leading a small team of engineers that need to be at either the Stevenage, QQ or INTA sites for significant durations.  Travel to the test sites will be required to support the programme delivery.

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: Bonus of up to 21% of base salary
• Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
• 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…

The opportunity:

An opportunity has arisen for the Head of Ground Trials role within the CAMM Family Trials Team. Reporting to the Chief Systems Proving Engineer (CSPE) the role will manage the ground trials activities required across the CAMM Family MS programmes.

In the near term, the role focuses on the delivery of the on-going live / inert environmental qualification programmes.  These are parallel programmes of combined live / inert functional testing conducted at two different test facilities in the UK and in Europe.

This will involve leadership of the multifunctional project team to deliver the programmes of work.

As the wider CAMM Family programme of activities progresses, there will be further programmes of work involving live and inert testing in the environmental and EMC domains.

The role will require a dynamic, autonomous and proactive individual with good technical knowledge, experience in team leadership / management and the ability to influence and engage at multiple different levels with the different internal stakeholders, external test houses and various seniors within the programme and wider business with a vested interest in the critical qualification programme activities.

Responsibilities of the role are:

• Supporting engineering leadership team with planning, reporting and problem solving across the mechanical / climatic and EMC qualification scope.
• Overall responsibility for delivery of all Missile Mechanical & Climatic trials – Liaising with internal environmental test SMEs, Trial Conduct, Schedule Adherence, Resource Allocation, safety, requirements coherence….
• Working with internal procurement team to manage the external test house programmes: contracts and progress, reqts, test compliance, schedule etc.
• Management of the live build capability for trials assets, compliance of production methodology, safety, competency and capability delivery at non-MBDA facility.
• Management and Oversight of trials conduct process adherence
• Multifunctional Team Leadership alongside ISV team day to day management – Support personal development, Identify training needs, Sickness/absence management etc.
• Work Package Management responsibility for the packages of work delegated from the CSPE
• Establish and maintain working groups for Assurance and trials delivery stakeholder groups

What we're looking for from you:

• Mechanical and Climatic trials or test experience preferable
• Work Package Management and schedule management experience required
• Practical experience of quality processes, especially non-conformance management.
• Awareness of test methodologies for functional test of weapon systems preferable (Special to Type Test Equipment, Test Setups, etc)
• Leadership skills, with people management experience
• Problem solving mind-set
• Communication skills, especially progress reporting, facilitating investigations and resource/facility planning

This role would suit an engineer with practical experience in trials conduct and team leadership looking to build on existing (or to develop new) people management skills with a team of engineers and also the wider group of project teams that support the delivery of trials hardware and trials conduct.

A keen eye for integrity and improvement opportunities would be an advantage as we look to achieve the live and inert qualification of CAMM Family products.

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