Senior Systems Engineer

About the job

Bolton

An opportunity to work on an exciting and challenging programme, liaising with stakeholders across MBDA and the FCAS enterprise, establishing key transversal areas such as safety and ensuring we are ready for key project milestones.

Salary: Up to £48k depending on experience

Dynamic (hybrid) working: 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.

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:

FCAS is one of the largest, most exciting and challenging programmes within Defence – a once-in-a-generation opportunity to design and deliver a Future Combat Air System (FCAS) for the RAF in record time.  The key cornerstone of FCAS is the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP), which sees the UK working with our international partners Italy and Japan.  FCAS and GCAP combined present a unique opportunity to influence the design of the fighter aircraft and its weapon system to reflect a new approach to the employment of effects and weapon integration rather than a more traditional integration of effectors to an air platform.

The FCAS portfolio consists of a number of different projects and contracts looking at different areas within Combat Air.  MBDA UK is involved in a number of these projects including the main UK FCAS Acquisition Programme which encompasses the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP) as well as the TEMPEST project, under the FCAS Technology Initiative (TI), where some novel technologies are being explored. 

We have a great opportunity arising within our Systems Engineering Integration Team. The SEI team enables effective communication, collaboration, and alignment across MBDA, FCAS, and the wider enterprise. Acting as a conduit between stakeholders, teams, and functions, we leverage transversal expertise to facilitate knowledge sharing, coordinate systems engineering activities, and ensure the delivery of a coherent, high-value capability on time, to cost, and to quality.

This opportunity will include managing, tailoring and implementing the MBDA lifecycle processes throughout the FCAS Programme. The role involves working across the whole project to define and implement how engineering elements of the project will operate, ensuring that it is following appropriate processes and guiding parts of the project through the relevant design reviews and project gates. There will be opportunity to engage in transversal areas such as safety. There are multiple opportunities to engage with senior stakeholders both within FCAS, its external stakeholders and the wider MBDA business.

What we're looking for from you:

• Versed in MBDA Design Review, Product Gate, and Technical Maturity Lifecycles
• Able to take initiative based on anticipated programme direction, kick-off new areas of work and work with uncertainty
• A desire to collaborate across the GCAP enterprise
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to create a wide network, across many internal business areas and external partners
• Be able to work both independently and as part of a team, dependent on work tasking
• Experience in managing several activities at once, with a broad set of deliverables and output classes
• A flexible and motivated candidate to work collaboratively with our customer community
• Strong written communication skills

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