Simulation Systems Engineer - HWIL. LilyLifestyle

Salary

Up to £46,000 depending on experience

4 days per week on site due to workload classification

British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship. Restrictions or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. All successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS) after the offer stage.

• 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
  : 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

We are looking for an ambitious engineer with a growth mindset to join our unique team. If you're the right person for us, you will seek a supportive environment, surrounded by passionate experts, in a driven team delivering a capability to support and optimise missile development.

The Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL / HIL) team conducts the most complete test of missiles other than a firing and are MBDA's Missile test track. We design complex, real-time simulations that surround real missile hardware to allow us to 'fire missiles indoors'.

As a HWIL Simulation Systems Engineer you will be responsible for maintaining the simulations, by ensuring simulators and control systems are fit for purpose. You will be reactive and proactive, providing engineering skills to maintain multiple axis hydraulic motion simulators and antenna positioning systems. There will be planned maintenance activities and corrective maintenance in response to unforeseen issues, where flexibility will be required.

This is a hands‑on role where physical activity is inherent. Missile testing is varied and the skills you will develop will be wide ranging.

You will be able to adapt to new engineering situations and be comfortable in abstracting detail in order to understand the facility simulation systems and equipment.

• Understanding of Hydraulic systems
• Computer Aided Design experience (CREO an advantage)
• Able to interpret mechanical and electrical drawings
• Workshop skills (hand and electrical tools)
• Psychomotor skills and dextrous
• Capable of working at height
• I.T. literate and capable of using Management Information Systems (MIS)
• Control system theory
• Able to work on own initiative but contribute ideas to team performance
• Ideally qualified with a Bachelor's Degree (2:1) in Mechanical Engineering/ Mechatronic & Robotic/ Aeronautical/ Electronic