Job Description

This role provides a valuable and technically challenging opportunity to work in a modern defence manufacturing environment, providing essential and decisive military capability to our UK customer and their allies
Salary: Circa 50,000 depending on experience
Dynamic (hybrid) working: 4-5 days per week on-site due to workload classification
Security Clearance:
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.
What we can offer you:

• Company bonus: Up to 2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
• Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
• Overtime: opportunity for paid overtime
• Flexi Leave: Up to 15 additional days
• Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
• Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave -enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
• Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more...

The opportunity:
This opportunity is for an Engineering Team Leader with a strong technical bias to join the Manufacturing Test Engineering organisation, supporting testing and diagnostics of Missile, Seekers & Datalink systems, sub-systems and circuit cards in manufacture. The Manufacturing Test Engineering organisation is responsible for day-to-day support of product testing within the manufacturing facilities at our Bolton site.

• Management of the team supporting Operations testing of seekers and datalinks electrical/electronic/RF systems and sub-assemblies, including deployment of engineers to appropriate tasks and prioritisation.
• Carrying out staff performance and development review discussions to ensure the team maintains and develops the right levels of skills and programme output.
• Driving the team to deliver in line with all programme and quality requirements, whilst maintaining Test Engineering functional excellence through continuous improvement.
• Representative at key stakeholder meetings to report progress of Test Engineering actions and align the team with programme priorities.
• Providing technical leadership and guidance to the team to ensure programme targets are met to agreed time, cost and quality requirements.

You will be working with a small team of dedicated engineers in a fast-paced but friendly and inclusive manufacturing environment. The team has a great mix of personnel ranging from apprentices and graduate engineers through to experienced technical practitioners, all striving to deliver technical excellence across a number of different products in development and production.
What we're looking for from you:

• Minimum HNC level of qualification or equivalent (ideally HND/degree) in a relevant subject, plus experience in digital, analogue and RF electronics manufacture and test.
• A good appreciation of electrical/electronic and RF measurement and test principles and test equipment, as well as systems-level functional testing.
• Experience of managing a small team of technical professionals in a multi-functional delivery orientated organisation.
• The ability to plan and organise the team's work in order to ensure multiple tasks can be prioritised and delivered against Project objectives.
• Good verbal and written communication skills, including generation of test specifications, operator instructions and technical reports based on higher-level requirements, using Microsoft Office applications.

Our company: Peace is not a given, Freedom is not a given, Sovereignty is not a given
MBDA is a leading defence organisation. We are proud of the role we play in supporting the Armed Forces who protect our nations. We partner with governments to work together towards a common goal, defending our freedom.
We are proud of our employee-led networks, examples include: Gender Equality, Pride, Menopause Matters, Parents and Carers, Armed Forces, Ethnic Diversity, Neurodiversity, Disability and more...
We recognise that everyone is unique, and we encourage you to speak to us should you require any advice, support or adjustments throughout our recruitment process.
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