Engineering Support - Graduate Programme 2027
// Role Summary
Join MBDA's Graduate Programme in Customer Support and Services (CSS) as an Engineering Support Graduate in 2027, playing a vital role in ensuring our defence products are ready for action and gaining hands-on experience with the Royal Navy, Army, and Royal Air Force.
// Key Responsibilities
- Gain hands-on experience across the entire CADMID cycle of defence systems.
- Influence the design of systems for supportability from development to in-service.
- Resolve technical issues and support maintenance activities for operational systems.
- Opportunity to interact directly with the Royal Navy, Army, and Royal Air Force.
- 2-year programme with annual salary reviews and excellent career progression.
// Role Specification
Engineering Support - Graduate Programme 2027
As a Graduate in Customer Support and Services (CSS), you will play a crucial role in ensuring our products are ready for action whenever our customers need them. Alongside your primary role at our sites in the UK, you'll have the opportunity to visit and interact directly with the Royal Navy, Army, and Royal Air Force, gaining hands-on experience with all the support you need.
Your placements within our department will be across the entire CADMID cycle. They could be working on a current development programme where you would be influencing the design of the System. Or they could be supporting an In-Service product, working to ensure the system remains operational, with anything from resolving technical issues with the Design Team to supporting maintenance activities.
The Opportunity:
Our role within MBDA is unique; we support the development and delivery of the whole Weapon System. Our mission is to understand everything that the user needs!
Every single system that MBDA delivers, from Meteor to Sea Viper, requires support to ensure that the Missile and surrounding systems remain operational for many years to come. CSS are the team at MBDA that make this happen; you will be a part of the team that makes this happen.
Your placements could be at any point in the CADMID cycle. For example, you could be working on a current development programme influencing the design of the System to ensure that it is supportable from the very first delivery. Or you could be resolving technical queries with the Design Team.
Throughout the programme, you will gain hands-on technical experience, bridging the gap between development and operational support.
What we can offer you:
- 2 year Programme: Starting September 2027
- Annual Salary Review
- 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
- Annual Leave: 25 days plus option to purchase extra holiday
- Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days
- Excellent career progression and development opportunities
- Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more.
- Healthcare Cash Plan: The Healthcare Cash Plan benefit provides the option to claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, health and wellbeing and more.