Airborne Platform Integration Engineer in Bristol

Job title - Airborne Platform Integration Engineer
Location - Bristol - Hybrid, 3 days on site - March start date
Pay rate - Up to £80ph umbrella Inside IR35

Will need to gain or have SC clearance prior to starting role.
An exciting opportunity has arisen to join one of our largest UK Defence companies!

Overview of department:
An excellent opportunity has arisen for a highly motivated individual to lead the development of the crew training solution for Sea Venom onto the AW159 Wildcat platform.

Responsibilities:
The successful candidate will be responsible for delivering the Sea Venom training and synthetic test equipment to the UK customer. The individual will work within the Air Platform Integration team within the Sea venom project and be responsible for the budget, technical delivery and schedule adherence for the Sea Venom Weapon System Training Model (embedded within the AW159 platform simulator for crew training) and the Sea Venom emulator product used to support the platform avionic software development.

The role will require regularly interfacing with the UK customer as well as other companies involved in the project.

This is an excellent opportunity to join a highly motivated and dynamic team within the company. Given the stage of the programme, the role provides the opportunity to see the Sea Venom product into service on AW159 Wildcat. The role high paced and provides plenty of variety day to day.

Skillset/experience required:
* An appropriate Engineering Degree or Masters (or equivalent experience)
* Experience delivering medium size work packages from a technical perspective in order to supply the work package deliverables to schedule, budget and quality.
* Strong inter-personal skills in order to manage many partners, internal and external to the business
* Knowledge of air launched weapons or relevant transferable experience in a related domain (e.g. Naval/ Land weapon systems, military aircraft systems, defensive systems etc.)
* A sound understanding of Systems engineering principles such as Technical Requirement Specifications, flow down of requirements, system architecture.
* Ability to do the necessary trade-offs between modelling fidelity of the (complex) weapon-system and the need to simplify its representation to meet the training needs.
* Knowledge of platform integration standards such as MIL-STD-1760D and MIL-STD 1553B (Desirable)
* Flow of top level system requirements onto software teams (Desirable
* Ability to undertake complex technical negotiations with a high degree of autonomy

If you think this is the role for you, just get in touch!

Disclaimer

This vacancy is being advertised by either Advanced Resource Managers Limited, Advanced Resource Managers IT Limited or Advanced Resource Managers Engineering Limited ("ARM"). ARM is a specialist talent acquisition and management consultancy. We provide technical contingency recruitment and a portfolio of more complex resource solutions. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission.