Your experience of Systems Engineering and knowledge of derivation of requirements will help you to become an integral part in delivering the Mission Planning systems for a highly complex and critical weapon system. As a Mission Planning Engineer you will take ownership of technical activities across both the Strike and Electronic Warfare capabilities.

You will have an exciting opportunity to work for a leading multi-national Defence systems provider which boasts some of most advanced facilities in their areas of expertise. A corporate benefits package and transparent career development opportunities are on offer within this vibrant Engineering environment.  
 
About the job:
 
Our client currently requires a Tactical Strike Mission Planning Engineer to work as a part of the Mission Planning team delivering SPEAR3 capabilities within the wider Weapon System domain, with an expectation to take ownership of technical activities across both the SPEAR3 Strike and Electronic Warfare capabilities.
The day-to-day responsibilities will include:

• Leading technical delivery of Mission Planning systems engineering activities (eg. requirements development, system design, test procedures)
• Derivation of requirements and architectures to support development of future capability
• Proving and certification of the core Mission Planning product currently in development
• Understanding of customer needs and the operational role of SPEAR EW capability and how this drives the Mission Planning design
• Liaison with other functional domains to deliver output to wider SPEAR Weapon Systems team

The role requires the applicant to be on site multiple days a week. Hybrid working is available but frequent on site presence is required due to the nature of the work.

About you:
As a Tactical Strike Mission Planning Engineer you will have;

• • Strong Systems Engineering capability and experience
  • Experience across whole systems engineering lifecycle
  • Excellent technical problem solving skills
  • The ability to work effectively with multiple functional teams
  • Proficiency in engineering tools and configuration control
  • The ability to effectively communicate with customers and end users
  • An appreciation and understanding of working with a MBSE approach
  • An appreciation of the software development lifecycle.

The following experience would also be of benefit:

• • Experience within Mission Planning domain
  • Experience in Electronic Warfare
  • Experience with the IBM engineering toolset (Rhapsody, DOORS, Engineering Workflow Manager, Engineering Test Manager).

Tactical Strike Mission Planning Engineer
Bristol
£45000 - £60000
Permanent
 
Keywords: Team lead, Mission Planning, Design Certification, Integration, Verification, Validation, Trial clearance, Missile, System certification, Platform integration, MBSE, Model-based systems, Design certificates, Stakeholders, Weapon system, System, Sub-system, Hardware, Software.
 
Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you don't hear from us within 7 working days please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV/details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time. 
 
Due to the nature of work undertaken at our client's site, incumbents of these positions are required to meet special nationality rules and therefore these vacancies are only open to sole British Citizens. Applicants who meet this criteria will also be required to undergo security clearance vetting, to SC level.
 
This is a permanent position.