Chief Platform Integrator - Deep Strike UK

Salary: Circa £80,000 - £82,000 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.

You typically need 5 years of continuous UK residency.  Not having spent five years in the UK may not automatically disqualify you, but please be aware we cannot guarantee the outcome of the security clearance process and this may impact your ability to work for MBDA; these are processed on a case by case basis.

What we can offer you:

• Company Bonus: Bonus of up to 35% of base salary
• Car Allowance
• Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
• 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…
• Private Medical Insurance: Eligible employees are enrolled as standard into the company funded Private Medical Insurance benefit.

The opportunity:

An opportunity to join the join the technical leadership team on one of the most expansive roles MBDA’s missile programmes offer - as a Chief Platform Integrator (CPI) for Deep Strike UK.  This covers 2 distinct but related missile projects – Storm Shadow and STRATUS.  The CPI is the primary technical lead for the integration of the Deep Strike weapons onto all airborne platforms, and as such is a key role in getting the weapon systems onto armed forces aircraft – including 4th, 5th, 6th Gen platforms.

The CPI will directly lead a small team of dedicated specialist integration engineers and wider indirect team of specialists across Technical and Operation Directorates. This is a high visibility role with significant exposure across the business, including MBDA (F) colleagues, wider industry and customer communities. 

In addition, the CPI forms part of the Systems Design Airborne Systems functional leadership team, supporting the Head of Function develop the function in addition to direct functional management responsibility for a team of 9 integration engineers at various levels.

The role provides an excellent opportunity to:

• Hone your technical leadership skills
• Grow exposure to commercial, business winning and programme delivery
• Build relationships across the business, with Platform Design Organisations and customers around the world.

What we’re looking for from you:

• Effective communication and co-ordination skills
• Pro-active with a strong drive to deliver on time, on cost and on quality
• Experience of leading a team.
• Knowledge of air launched weapons or relevant transferable experience in a related domain (e.g. Naval/ Land weapon systems, military aircraft systems, defensive systems etc.).
• Good systems engineering background and willingness to adopt new methods of working.
• Ability to work in a complex multi-stakeholder environment, sometimes with significant ambiguity.
• Ability to see the bigger picture and know when to flex or adapt to the changing needs of respective missile and aircraft programmes.
• Ability and confidence to undertake complex technical negotiations with a significant degree of autonomy.

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