Are you looking for an opportunity to develop and diversify your skills while working on a flagship program?
Salary: Up to £65,000 depending on experience
Dynamic (hybrid) working: 3 - 4 days per week on-site due to workload classification
Security Clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship. Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.
Many of MBDA’s complex weapon systems incorporate a Command and Control (C2) system. Often referred to as the brains of the Weapon System, their primary role is to support the human operator with situational awareness and decision aids, and to plan and coordinate engagements. These C2 services are crucial to achieving mission success and maximising performance in challenging and fast-changing threat scenarios. C2 services also include management of overall weapon system state and status, data recording and analysis, operator training and more, providing the core of the weapon system functionality and behaviour. C2s interface with every major component of the weapon system such as sensors, launchers, weapons and datalinks, as well as launch platforms and higher-level C2 networks and systems.
MBDA has a large portfolio of C2 products in development for UK domestic and export customers in Land and Maritime air-defence missile programmes, and new programmes in directed energy weapons and other domains.
The Head of Sea Ceptor C2 subsystem role is the Design Authority for a C2, responsible for development of the product and certification of the product to enable integration onto customer platforms. You will lead the team of systems engineers responsible for requirements analysis, co-design of the C2 with software, hardware, human factors and algorithms engineering disciplines, and in the production of the proving plan and generation of compliance evidence leading to certification of the product. This will ensure the product meets its updated and new needs through multiple development contracts.
Working in the C2 domain in MBDA provides the opportunity to interact with all areas of the company, to see the full product development lifecycle and to deliver real capability to the customers to protect their home nation for the future.
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A world leader in missiles and missile systems.
Our multi-national organisation is made up of around 13,000 employees working across the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Spain and the US, and is the first truly integrated European defence company.
As the European champion in our sector, our vision is to continue to grow our presence as a global player. Our mission is to achieve this by establishing ourselves as an industry leader; promoting co-operation and delivering technical and operational excellence to our customer.
Our values are:
• Innovation:
Ensuring operational and strategic advantage;
• Commitment:
Always delivering on our promises;
• Integrity:
A reliable and trusted partner with the highest professional and ethical standards;
• Passion:
Applying all our energy and focus to every task, recognising our role in providing mission critical capabilities;
• Team Spirit:
Harnessing our diversity and collective purpose to deliver competitive advantage to all of our stakeholders.
We have a rich heritage of designing and producing missiles and missile systems to meet the whole range of current and future operational requirements for the three armed forces (army, navy, air force). We are proud to be a trusted partner to our armed forces and work with them to deliver a cutting-edge portfolio of products.