Stevenage
MBDA is looking for a Functional Design Lead Engineer to develop Missile Concepts, support bids, understand technology roadmaps and deploy a range of working practices, such as Agile.
Salary: Circa £55,000 depending on experience
What we can offer you:
* Company bonus of up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
* Pension of maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
* Annual salary review
* Paid overtime
* Up to 15 days flexi leave
* 25 days annual leave (plus holiday purchase)
* Fantastic site facilities, including subsidised meals, free car parking
* Excellent career progression and development opportunities
Hybrid working pattern: Where possible, we will seek to accommodate a blended approach to on-site and remote working.
Key Responsibilities:
* As a Functional Design Lead Engineer working on a Future Air Dominance project within the Future Products department; part of Missile Design UK, you will be assigned to work on the Future Air Superiority Effector (FASE) project.
* Demonstrate and develop early phase design cycle skills combining core System Engineering, Business development, Customer & User engagements, technology applicability and new functionality areas.
* Develop & nurture skills for Concept Phase activities, including using System Design tools, such as DOORS for requirements, Rhapsody for Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Design Maturity Assessments.
* Tackle a variety of activities to develop Missile Concepts, support bids, understand technology roadmaps and deploy a range of working practices, such as Agile.
What we are looking for from you:
* The confidence to embrace the uncertain nature of early concept development and technologies to progress towards defining solutions and system concepts.
* Good Systems Engineering knowledge, alongside the ability and desire to test new techniques and use new methods to develop concepts and complete system trade studies.
* Experience of weapons systems and missile design, particularly functional design and systems trade studies.
* A solid understanding of weapon systems, platforms and missile sub-systems.
* Ability to negotiate and influence a broad range of internal and external partners to secure the right outcome.
* Experience of planning and task management.
* Knowledge of DOORS, Rhapsody and systems design analysis tools e.g. Pugh Matrix / QFD.
Typical Activities include:
* Core Systems Engineering activities including exploring Customer needs to develop and elicit requirements.
* Support and influence the design of new concepts, refining them with a multi-discipline team.
* Concept capability analysis and competitor product technical performance analysis.
* Conduct Trade Studies and assessments.
* Develop and deploy systems engineering methods and technical authorisation.
* Technical bid generation and support to contract award.
* Support customer-focused Experiments, using a wide range of techniques and tools including war-games and synthetic environments.
* Support future weapon system planning and product roadmaps.
* Exploiting and influencing Research and Technology activities.
* Technically coordinate & drive activities across the Design Domain to ensure coherent & mature embodiment of the required system-level behaviour to time quality & cost.
* Perform functional analysis to decompose functional requirements into lower-level functions.
* Identify and conduct studies to mature understanding of required behaviour/performance and support requirement maturation.
* Support the performance team to develop any modelling required.
* Manage Functional and Performance Requirements and Functional Design at system and subsystem level.
* Identify and capture Functional Risks, Opportunities, Issues and Assumptions and their associated Mitigation strategies.
* Conduct Functional Trade Studies.
* Mature Functional Architecture & generate Functional Interfaces.
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