Production Design Support Engineer

Weapon system equipment is at the heart of our products and is critical to MBDA delivering capability to our front-line users. It is often the part of the product that users interact with the most in training and in operations. As such, it is critical that delivered equipment continues to be of a high quality when it leaves the factory and throughout its in-service life.

As part of our expansion plans, it has become necessary to expand our product design support capability within weapon system equipment to enable the manufacturing team to continue to deliver our systems at the quality and rate we require.

Salary
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Salary:
Circa £53 to £63k depending on experience

Dynamic (hybrid) working
: 3-4 days per week due to nature of work

Security Clearance
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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.

• Company bonus
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  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
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  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.

This role will be embedded within our production facility to be the first line of support and co-ordination of resolution for production design queries on behalf of the project teams, to improve production yield and ensure programme targets are achieved.

Based on your broad engineering knowledge, you will be supported in accessing expertise across a number of engineering disciplines (systems, electronics, electrical, mechanical and software) to effectively produce root cause analysis for design queries against the defined production standard in build, provide technical insight and reports to aide resolution of the query, as well as oversee implementation of corrective actions.

You will be working with a small team of dedicated engineers in a fast-paced but friendly and inclusive manufacturing environment. The team has a great mix of people, ranging from apprentices and graduates through to time served experienced engineers, all striving to deliver technical excellence across a number of different weapon systems in development and production.

• Provide a point of contact within the manufacturing facility to gather data, run investigations and respond to production design queries with the remotely located weapon system design authorities
• Establish an effective tracking and control system to support status and progress of the weapon system related production design queries
• Utilise established engineering toolsets (IBM PLM suite, SAP, ) to correctly locate, convey and manage design data
• Provide guidance to the manufacturing teams of any deviations to the published design baseline and consider the impact to certification as part of the query resolution process
• Establish and promote formal diagnosis methodologies to identify the root cause and report corrective action recommendations
• Gather evidence from the shop floor to provide back to the design authority
• Lead technical progress meetings with the relevant Project Team and / or Supplier
• Where necessary, place work packages on the design teams to implement design changes, monitoring the cost at completion and the Unit Production Cost (UPC) impact of the recommendations

• An experienced product design engineer,…