Principal Integration and System Validation Engineer
// Role Summary
Join a growing team supporting the Land Ceptor project with Ground Based Trials for a large export programme. This role offers hands-on experience with real equipment and opportunities to test and demonstrate capabilities across the UK and internationally.
// Key Responsibilities
- Conduct functional testing, equipment qualification, and problem resolution.
- Gain hands-on experience with real equipment and customer demonstrations.
- Support trials in various environments including lab rigs and firing trials.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across project teams, partner companies, and customers.
- Analyse system behaviour and support failure investigations.
- Opportunity for international travel to Poland and the USA.
// Role Specification
Role Overview
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the growing Integration and Systems Validation team supporting the Land Ceptor project with Ground Based Trials activities for a large export programme. This varied role consists of a mix of functional testing, equipment qualification and acceptance, plus problem identification and resolution. It offers the chance to gain hands-on experience with real equipment, and support testing and demonstrations of capability to MBDA's customer across sites in the UK, Poland and the USA. You will also work with other external stakeholders to deliver the wider weapon system to the customer.
This is a UK-based role, with opportunities to travel abroad. It provides a great opportunity to work in a fast-paced, customer-facing environment with guaranteed diverse work.
Key Responsibilities
As a broad-based Systems Integration and Proving Trials Engineer, you will be responsible for:
- Working with stakeholders across the project, from within partner companies and from the customer community, to plan trials to demonstrate integration and gather evidence to qualify MBDA Weapon Systems into a wider System of Systems environment.
- Liaising with the systems engineering team and design teams to ensure adequate trials data is acquired and to investigate and resolve design issues.
- Analysing and reporting on in-depth analysis of the system behaviour across its internal and external interfaces.
- Delivering trials in a number of environments, including:
- Lab-based integration and functional rigs
- System of Systems integration trials
- Acceptance trials
- Firing trials
- Conducting and supporting failure investigations.
- Supporting safe and reliable trials, including developing and maintaining risk assessments, management of hardware and software assets, and control of hardware and software configuration.
What We Offer
- 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