Launch Management System Lead Engineer

Position Overview

Weapon System Equipment plays a key role in the development and delivery of MBDA’s products to our customers. We operate across the full range of operational commands including land, naval, airborne, and increasingly novel capability domains, ensuring MBDA’s systems remain at the forefront of defence capability. We specialise in providing physical design coherency across weapon systems for all phases of the development cycle and are ultimately responsible for the system elements that our end users interact with on a daily basis.

Salary:
Circa £49,000‑£57,000 depending on experience.

Dynamic (hybrid) working: 3‑4 days per week on‑site due to workload classification.

Security Clearance:
British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship. All successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.

• Understand and perform the verification stages of the design lifecycle, defining clear test procedures and strategies.
• Work within a multi‑discipline engineering team (e.g. systems, mechanical, electrical, software, etc.).
• Log and track defects found during V&V activities and those resulting from customer queries, collaborating with development teams to resolve them.
• Own tasks and deliver results, managing schedule, cost, quality and performance metrics for assigned work packages.
• Using DOORS and IBM Rhapsody (and similar engineering requirement capture tools) to manage requirements, verification scenarios, test procedures and evidence collection alongside the Head of LMS, LMS Architect, and LMS verification teams.
• Work within a laboratory environment with software, test equipment and the electronic equipment under test.
• In addition, as your knowledge and experience grow, you may be expected to:
• Run documentation peer reviews.
• Grow your professional network through our multi‑national defence organisation.
• Validate technical publications against product requirements and behaviour.

• Experience with requirements and verification management tools such as IBM DOORS.
• Knowledge of systems engineering principles, processes and practices.
• Appreciation of requirements engineering at system, subsystem or component level.
• Knowledge associated with the design and build of hardware.
• Awareness of test procedures required to verify products and the gathering of evidence to enable certification.
• Confidence in presenting technical engineering information and promoting decision making.
• Experience of technical report writing and use of configuration management tools.

• 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: 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.

We recognise that everyone is unique, and we encourage you to speak to us should you require any advice, support or adjustments throughout our recruitment process.

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