System of Systems Integration Lead

Job Title: System of Systems Integration Lead – Ground Based Air Defence

Salary: Circa £65,000 depending on experience 

Location: Bristol

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: Bonus of up to 21% of base salary
• 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…
• 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.

The opportunity:

As the System of Systems Integration lead your primary objective is to lead and co-ordinate a multi-disciplinary engineering team in engagement with the customer along with industry partners in support of integration (physical / functional) of an MBDA land product into a wider Ground Based Air Defence Weapon System context.   

As the System of System Integration Lead you will be responsible for leading the following System of Systems activities for a MBDA Ground Based Air Defence export contract: 

• Working with the customer to define System of Systems Requirements, including evolution paths for future development
• Main technical point of contact to the customer and industry partners for all System of Systems activities and technical queries
• Lead regular technical working groups with the customer including co-ordinating with engineering teams on required inputs
• Co-ordinating and working collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team on technical issues, queries and conflict resolution including co-ordinating responses to and from the customer and industrial partners.

This role will involve regular travel overseas (2 times a month for 3/4 days and up to 3 times in busy periods) to support engagement with the customer and industry partners.

What we're looking for from you:

An experienced engineer with:

• Proven experience in developing and integrating complex systems, preferably in the defence industry
• Strong systems thinking skills with the ability to initiate and drive trade studies
• Excellent communication skills to effectively convey technical information to a variety of stakeholders (internally and externally)
• Experience developing requirement sets, and an ability to agreeing these collaboratively with different stakeholder groups including System Design Authorities and Government organisations
• Project engineering knowledge to be able to design and deliver work packages

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