Principal Test Engineer CCA

About the job

This role provides a provides a technically challenging and rewarding opportunity to work in a modern defence manufacturing environment, providing essential and decisive military capability to our UK customer and their allies.

Salary: Circa £50,000.00 depending on experience

Dynamic (hybrid) working: 4-5 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…

The opportunity:

This opportunity is for a Lead Test Engineer with a strong technical bias to join the Circuit Card Assembly Business Unit in Manufacturing UK, supporting testing and diagnostics of circuit cards and electronics in manufacture.

• Management of a small team (approximately 5 test engineers), including deployment of engineers to appropriate tasks and prioritisation.
• Responsibility for the development of the team and their performance including conducting performance and development review discussions.
• Driving the team to deliver in line with all programme and quality requirements, whilst building the capability of the CCA Business Unit's test capabilities through continuous improvement.
• Providing technical leadership and guidance to the team to ensure programme targets are met to agreed time, cost and quality requirements.
• Providing support and guidance to the Test Engineering team to ensure the right test capabilities are available for future projects in production.
• Representative at key stakeholder meetings to report progress of Test Engineering actions and align the team with programme priorities.
• Liaising with Test Equipment Design, Production Design Support, and the Prime Design Teams/Test Architects to support delivery of future test capabilities and support of current solutions.
• Leading defect investigations down to component level on a wide variety of analogue, digital and RF based CCAs.
• Providing technical input to the NCRB (Non-Conformance Review Board) in order to improve test yields.
• Ensuring configuration management of test related documentation is in line with company processes.

You will be working with a small team of dedicated engineers in a fast-paced but friendly and inclusive manufacturing environment. The team has a great mix of personnel ranging from apprentices and graduate engineers through to experienced technical practitioners, all striving to deliver technical excellence across a number of different products in development and production.

What we're looking for from you:

• Minimum HNC level of qualification or equivalent (ideally HND/degree) in a relevant subject.
• A good understanding of analogue and digital electronics and associated failure diagnosis techniques is essential.
• Experience in engaging with and presenting technical information to a wide range of stakeholders at multiple (including senior) levels of an organisation.
• Experience of managing a small team of technical professionals in a multi-functional delivery orientated organisation.
• The ability to plan and organise the team's work in order to ensure multiple tasks can be prioritised and delivered against Project objectives.
• Good verbal and written communication skills, including generation of test specifications, operator instructions and technical reports based on higher-level requirements, using Microsoft Office applications.

Our company: Peace is not a given, Freedom is not a given, Sovereignty is not a given

MBDA is a leading defence organisation.  We are proud of the role we play in supporting the Armed Forces who protect our nations. We partner with governments to work together towards a common goal, defending our freedom.

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We recognise that everyone is unique, and we encourage you to speak to us should you require any advice, support or adjustments throughout our recruitment process.

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