Functional Design Lead Engineer

Bristol

MBDA is looking for a Functional Design Lead Engineer to develop Missile Concepts, support bids, understand technology roadmaps and deploy a range of working practices, such as Agile.

Salary: Circa £55,000 depending on experience 

What we can offer you:

• Company bonus of up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
• Pension of maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
• Annual salary review
• Paid overtime
• Up to 15 days flexi leave
• 25 days annual leave (plus holiday purchase)
• Fantastic site facilities, including subsidised meals, free car parking
• Excellent career progression and development opportunities

Hybrid working pattern: Where possible, we will seek to accommodate a blended approach to on-site and remote working

• As a Functional Design Lead Engineer working on a Future Air Dominance project within the Future Products department; part of Missile Design UK you will be assigned to work on the Future Air Superiority Effector (FASE) project.

• You will demonstrate and develop early phase design cycle skills combining core System Engineering, Business development, Customer & User engagements, technology applicability and new functionality areas.

• Develop & nurture skills for Concept Phase activities. This could include using System Design tools, such as DOORS for requirements, Rhapsody for Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Design Maturity Assessments.
• Within the Department, you'll tackle a variety of activities to develop Missile Concepts, support bids, understand technology roadmaps and deploy a range of working practices, such as Agile.

What we are looking for from you:

• The confidence to embrace the uncertain nature of early concept development and technologies to progress towards defining solutions and system concepts;
• Good Systems Engineering knowledge, alongside the ability and desire to test new techniques and use new methods to develop concepts and complete system trade studies;
• Experience of weapons systems and missile design, particularly functional design and systems trade studies;
• A solid understanding of weapon systems, platforms and missile sub-systems;
• To be able to negotiate and influence a broad range of internal and external partners to secure the right outcome;
• Experience of planning and task management;
• Knowledge of DOORS, Rhapsody and systems design analysis tools e.g. Pugh Matrix / QFD / etc.

Typical Activities include:

• Core Systems Engineering activities including:
• Exploring Customer needs to develop and elicit requirements;
• Support and influence the design of new concepts, to the refine them with a multi-discipline team;
• Concept capability analysis and competitor product technical performance analysis;
• Trade Studies and assessment.
• Develop and deploy systems engineering methods and technical authorisation;
• Technical bid generation and support to contract award;
• Supporting customer focused Experiments, using a wide range of techniques and tools including war-games and synthetic environments;
• Supporting future weapon system planning and product roadmaps;
• Exploiting and influencing Research and Technology activities.
• Technically co-ordinate & drive activities across the Design Domain to ensure coherent & mature embodiment of the required system-level behaviour to time quality & cost. This will involve working across functions and departments to ensure a viable design.
• Perform functional analysis to decompose functional requirements into lower-level functions
• Identify and conduct studies to mature understanding of required behaviour/performance and support requirement maturation. Work closely with the performance team to develop any modelling required
• Functional and Performance Requirements and Functional Design at system and subsystem level
• Identification and Capture of Functional Risks, Opportunities, Issues and Assumptions and their associated Mitigation strategies;
• Identification and conduct of Functional Trade Studies;
• Maturation of Functional Architecture & generation of Functional Interfaces.

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