FCAS Digital Weapons Integration Systems Engineer – Functional Integration

FCAS is one of the largest and most exciting programmes within Defence – to design and deliver a Future Combat Air System for the RAF in record time. The key cornerstone of FCAS is the Global Combat Air Programme (GCAP), which sees the UK working with our international partners Italy and Japan.  FCAS and GCAP combined present a unique opportunity to influence the design of the platform and wider system to reflect a new approach to weapon integration and employment of effects rather than just traditional integration of effectors to an existing platform.

Salary: Circa £57,500 depending on experience

Dynamic (hybrid) working: 2-3 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.

The opportunity:

This role sits within the FCAS Weapons Integration Transformation team of teams and offers an exciting opportunity to define how Functional Integration activities are undertaken in the future in order to accelerate delivery of capability to the customer. As the GCAP Programme continues to internationalise, this role also offers the opportunity to work and align approaches with international stakeholders from Platform and Weapon Supplier communities.

As a Systems Engineer in the Functional Integration team you will be responsible for developing and maturing novel approaches to functional integration, focussed on increasing integration capacity by reducing reliance on traditional physical testing methodologies and reducing technical risk earlier in the integration programme. This area of the programme will have a keen focus on collaborative working with our international partners in Italy and Japan, and will include international travel up to twice per quarter.

Responsibilities include:

• Delivery of the technology development roadmaps for Functional Integration Transformation
• Working with WSSE and Software to deliver outputs inline with the Technology Development Roadmaps
• Coordination and delivery of demonstrations to key internal and external stakeholders to demonstrate the benefits of the proposed approaches
• Working with International Colleagues from the GCAP partner nations (Platform and Weapon Suppliers) to align approaches and deliver collaborative international demonstrations to key stakeholders to build confidence ahead of programme review gates, with a particular focus on developing a common MBSE framework for the programme.

What we’re looking for from you:

• An understanding of the current weapons integration or mission system integration challenges faced by industry
• Comfortable with ambiguity and an ability to mature the scope of work from a relative blank sheet of paper.
• Comfortable operating at pace, in a fast moving and evolving environment.
• Ability to develop technical solutions to complex engineering problems by following Systems Engineering processes.
• Ability to develop effective working relationships with the wider engineering team, including relevant SMEs.
• Ability to produce and develop engineering artefacts.
• Commercial, security and data export awareness
• Experience working within a cross-industry or customer collaborator environment.

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