Location: Bristol
Salary: Up to £45,000 P/A + Overtime, bonus and benefits
Hours: 37 hours per week
Do you want to join a business, who value inclusivity, a three-time gold investor in people award winner, an advocate of supporting women in engineering and developing their people to be the best they can be?
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a concept engineer within a defence programme to help define and develop Effects Management Segment concepts. This programme is critical to maintaining a sovereign defence capability. The Concept Engineer requires excellent communication skills supported by technical delivery and management experience.
The Concept Engineer will be placed at the forefront of defining, co-ordinating and delivering technical activities where they will be required to work closely with a number of enthusiastic and multi-disciplined internal and international teams.
Benefits of working here:
- State of the art technology & innovation
- External learning and development encouraged.
- Light and airy university type campus.
- Friendly environment!
- Restaurant, On site Medical Centre, Parking / Easy Access to train station, Coffee Shops & Onsite Shop, Sports & Social Club and More
What you will be doing
- Identifying which technology’s to invest in
- Linking to delivery programme to identify collaboration opportunities
- Mapping Effect Management Segment technologies back into customer needs and opportunities
- Concept Generation and Refinement
- Concept capability analysis and competitor product technical performance analysis
- Informing and creating links with Research and Technology activities
- Planning, Supporting and developing demos of related technologies
Skills Required
- Ideally degree qualified in a STEM subject, such as electronics, mathematics, physics, systems engineering or aerospace engineering
- Knowledge of the future operating environment
- The ability and cultural awareness to work with multiple disciplinary functions supporting technology and concepting, across the Group
- The confidence to embrace the uncertain nature of early concept development to progress towards defining solutions and system concepts
- The ability and desire to employ new techniques and utilise new ideas and technologies
- To be adaptable and flexible to changing/emerging requirements
- An appreciation of weapons systems, platforms and sub-systems
- Strong interpersonal skills and an ability to work with a broad range of internal and external stakeholders
- Experience working autonomously and with senior support
You should be able and willing to gain (UK Eyes only) security clearance. Applications are open to UK nationals or UK dual citizens. Some restrictions may apply.
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