Land Ceptor Ground Integration Trials Lead

Location and Salary

Stevenage. Salary:
Circa £53,000 – £57,000 depending on experience.

Dynamic (hybrid) working: 3–5 days per week on‑site due to workload classification.

British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship is required. All successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS) after offer.

• Company bonus: up to £2,500 (performance based)
• Pension: up to 14% total employer and employee contribution
• Paid overtime opportunities
• Flexi Leave: up to 15 additional days
• Flexible working arrangements welcomed
• Enhanced parental leave: up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption, shared parental leave, with extensions for paternity, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
• Site facilities: subsidised meals, free car parking and more
• Healthcare Cash Plan: claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses

• Take ownership of test artefacts, ensuring requirement coverage and configuration control.
• Lead a small team to conduct ground integration test events and review the results.
• Report on test progress and produce formal qualification period reports.
• Work with stakeholders across the project, including partner companies and customer community, to plan trials and demonstrate integration.
• Facilitate each event with stakeholders, including external test houses.
• Collaborate with systems engineering and design teams to acquire adequate trials data and resolve design issues.
• Support safe and reliable trials, including developing and maintaining risk assessments and managing hardware and software assets and configuration.
• Understand security implications on the trial environment.

• Good verbal and written communication skills.
• Experience communicating at an appropriate level with a wide range of engineering and management stakeholders.
• Experience working within a large team, across multiple sites and departments.
• Experience in ground‑based integration and proving, particularly with Trundle, EMC, Interoperability and Thermal trials.
• Experience with configuration management and defect reporting.
• Basic understanding of network/cable assembly drawings.
• Fault finding and root cause analysis at subsystem integration level.
• Experience in customer‑facing roles is beneficial.

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