Package: Competitive Salary + Benefits
Role ID: SF17403
Be part of the QinetiQ journey. Join us as a Senior Radar Scientist at our Funtington site, where you will have the opportunity to work with cutting-edge technology and many of the industry’s most brilliant minds.
The Role
As a Senior Radar Scientist, you’ll have a role that is out of the ordinary. You will support in leading the radar signature measurement trials to help improve platform protection against radar threats through signature management and the use of radar countermeasures.
Day-to-day, you’ll undertake and lead the radar signature measurement trials. The role will require operating the ground-based Groundlark instrumentation radars and the airborne Skylark radar system.
Your responsibilities will include:
* Deploying as a member of the trial delivery team and where required support in team leadership
* Supporting all aspects of trial planning from safety, security, logistics and technical
* Providing technical expertise input to investment and customer projects
* Participating in the effective and efficient operation of the Radar Cross Section facility, proactively working to implement process improvements when identified
* Complying with all Health and Safety and Environmental requirements at a particular trials site by working by the Trials Risk Assessment, the Site Health, Safety and Environmental Plan, and the Site Security Plan
This role is 37 hours per week based at Funtington. Hybrid working patterns available.
Essential experience of the Senior Radar Scientist:
* You must have experience in Digital Signal Processing, Image Processing or Radar Imaging
* You must also have experience in Radar Signature Measurements
Essential qualifications for the Senior Radar Scientist:
* You must have a degree in Physics, Science or Maths
Please note that all applicants must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.
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Many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting being completed, applicants who already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment. A number of roles are also subject to additional restrictions, which mean factors such as nationality or previous nationalities may affect the roles that you can be employed in.
Our Benefits
* Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
* Generous holiday allowance
* Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
* Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more
* Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy up to 5 days’ additional leave
* We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant
* Payroll Giving and Volunteering - helping charities and local community
Our volunteering programme enables our people to use their professional skills to make a positive difference in our local communities, for example STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ambassador days in schools. We support a number of charities that are important to our people, including those that help the defence community.
Why Join QinetiQ?
As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there has never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.
You will experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you will get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in and diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Visit our website to read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture.
About QinetiQ
As a company of thousands of dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.