Inzpire - Combat Air Specialist

THE COMPANY

We are a highly innovative and rapidly growing defence and technology company that design, develop, and deliver some of the world’s most advanced defence related training, products, and services.

We were recently crowned Employer of the Year at the British Ex-Forces in Business Awards 2023. We have been listed as one of the ‘100 Best Large Companies to Work For’ in the UK and Midlands by Best Companies several times as well as achieving ‘Best Companies 3 Star Accreditation’ and a rating of ‘world-class’ for our employee engagement on a number of occasions.

We are also proud to have been honoured with two Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in Innovation, for our next-generation GECO military mission planning system.

As part of a unique and specialist defence company, our friendly team consists of experienced and highly capable individuals, working together with a mature ‘can do’ work ethic. Our central business functions are located in an easily accessible, bright and modern head office to the west of Lincoln, alongside our mission systems team, while the majority of our operational specialists are embedded alongside our Defence customers.

Due to the continued expansion of the Technical Services and Air and Space Division within Inzpire, we are seeking Expressions of Interest from exceptional individuals with a Combat Air Specialism.

We are keen to hear from suitably qualified and experienced individuals in both the UK and overseas markets to work within our capability delivery and training teams, providing current and specialist support to MOD projects and programmes. These roles vary from providing tactical / operational advice to the customer, delivering White Force (WF) and exercise control through to operator focussed, project management roles in 4th, 5th and 6th generation programmes.

This work also includes support to the Defence Industry partners delivering these programmes and projects on behalf of the MOD and other UK Government Departments.

Suitable applicants must be Combat Air specialists with experience in all / some of the following areas:

• 4th/5th Generation tactics and employment
• Relevant operational experience working with 4th/5th Gen CA platforms
• Developing and contributing to UK Combat Air Strategy
• Collective Training experience
• Capability delivery ranging from Requirements Management to Programme Management Office responsibilities
• Test and Evaluation experience
• Multi-national exercise and operational collaboration and/or working in multi-national programmes
• NATO or US exchange experience
• Experience working in multi-national capability programmes (e.g Typh NETMA, US F-35, GCAP)

We have vacancies beginning in Summer 2026 and longer-term opportunities with start dates in the 6–18-month timeframe. Please let us know your availability when contacting us.

We are looking for truly exceptional, professionally credible, operationally experienced Combat Air Specialists. The successful individuals will have recent operational experience, extensive CA platform experience and / or an excellent instructional pedigree, therefore a QWI qualification, or equivalent, while not essential would be highly advantageous. The successful individual will be able to draw on extensive experience and have an in-depth knowledge of the areas that enable, deliver and support CA effectiveness.

You will enjoy customer-facing roles which will include consultancy, advice and mentoring to our customers and offer direct support in the delivery of specific contracted outputs and programmed exercises. You will be capable of delivering assurance and evaluation through either exercise delivery or project delivery.

You must be capable of critical and analytical thinking with a proven record of briefing to senior stakeholders and a confident presenter capable of briefing complex subjects to mixed audiences.

You will work with other Inzpire personnel and customer staff and should have great interpersonal and communications skills, integrity and strength of character, plus the enthusiasm to deliver against the contract.

We recognise that a talented, highly motivated and diverse workforce is pivotal to our…