Functional Systems Engineer - Land Ceptor
// Role Summary
Join MBDA's growing Land Ceptor Systems Engineering team to support critical defence contracts and export opportunities. This role offers dynamic hybrid working and the chance to work across key areas of system development.
// Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to the Land Ceptor Systems Engineering team supporting UK and export contracts.
- Opportunity to gain experience in requirements management, certification, and program delivery.
- Work with customer requirements to derive system, subsystem, and software specifications.
- Involved in capturing evidence, conducting technical investigations, and supporting Certificates of Design.
- Support program delivery and stakeholder engagement for the Poland programme.
- Requires general systems engineering experience, requirements derivation, and familiarity with tools like DOORS.
// Role Specification
Here at MBDA, our Land Ceptor Systems Engineering team is growing in order to help the British and Polish Armies fulfil the full potential of the system and to extend and tailor the capability for existing and emerging export contracts.
The recent commencement of new contracts means the Land Ceptor functional development team needs to grow to support this varied portfolio. There are a number of roles within the Land Ceptor team working for the Chief Systems Engineer.
As a Systems Engineer within the Functional development team, you could be involved in one of the following areas (with opportunity to get experience across all areas):
- Working as part of the requirements team to take customer requirements and deriving suitable system, subsystem and software requirements, systems studies and support system design.
- Working as part of the certification team to capture and review evidence, conduct technical investigations and support the delivery of Certificate of Designs to enable customer deliveries.
- Working with the Poland programme lead to organise bids, manage and support the programme delivery activities. This will involve everything from stakeholder engagement to helping manage and deliver the overall Poland programmes in the functional area.
What we're looking for from you:
- General systems engineering experience (ideally in a defence based context).
- Requirements management and derivation experience.
- Experience of system engineering tools e.g. 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 technical activities.
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.
- 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.