Are you passionate about engineering? As a member of our Firing Units and Power Electronics team, this is a fantastic opportunity to play an integral role in delivering our products.
Salary: Up to £57,000 depending on experience
Location: Stevenage (We may be able to offer a relocation package for this role)
Dynamic (hybrid) working: Typically, 3 days per week on site. Where possible, we will seek to accommodate a blended approach to on-site and remote working.
Security Clearance: British Citizen
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:
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Company bonus: Up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
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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
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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
-
Healthcare Cash Plan: The Healthcare Cash Plan benefit provides the option to claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, health and wellbeing and more.
The opportunity:
- Being a first point of contact for advice and support on technical and process related queries, and providing more formal support options.
- Work on process improvement, where opportunities are identified, and promote awareness of relevant company process across the team.
- Actively track the project activities of each Tech Lead, through regular catch ups and/or reviewing the reporting materials that they generate to their project design authority.
- Periodically review each Tech Lead's L4 project plans.
- With knowledge of each Tech Lead's project activities and plans, provide pro-active guidance and course correction, where potential issues are identified, rather than waiting to be approached when issues arise.
- Support project gate reviews by advising on review pack contents and potentially holding pre-review before the actual gate review takes place.
- To be an escalation route to support realistic cost affective technical delivery solutions (Stakeholders being Head of Actuators (Joe); Equipment EDA (multiple), Head of Equipment Delivery (Ashvin))
- Tailor the level of support and involvement as appropriate, based on the needs of each individual team Tech lead.
- Investigate all potential opportunities of offloading are met for each project
- Provide technical input to Bids in support of Actuator CofEx new business
What we're looking for from you:
Strong power electronics background, ideally with previous design experience of PMSM control systems (could be from Automotive Traction or Defence)
Experience with mixed analogue & digital control electronics design, some specifics include:
Power Inverters (discrete gate drives & 3 phase bridge power stage) / DC-DC converters / Digital Position Encoders / Analogue Position Sensors / Current Sensors & Signal Conditioning / Discrete Control Logic
Experience in the full product development life cycle experience
Experience with Design for Test & Design for Manufacture
Experience with designing for EMC & ENV compliance
Experience of design for high safety integrity (Design Assurance Level / Safety Integrity Level)
At least an appreciation for Systems Engineering, System Architecture Design, Thermal Management techniques, Reliability.
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.
Follow us on LinkedIn (MBDA), X (@MBDA_UK), Instagram (MBDA_UK) and Glassdoor or visit our MBDA Careers website for more information.
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Are you passionate about engineering? As a member of our Firing Units and Power Electronics team, this is a fantastic opportunity to play an integral role in delivering our products.
Salary: Up to £57,000 depending on experience
Location: Stevenage (We may be able to offer a relocation package for this role)
Dynamic (hybrid) working: Typically, 3 days per week on site. Where possible, we will seek to accommodate a blended approach to on-site and remote working.
Security Clearance: British Citizen
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
-
Healthcare Cash Plan: The Healthcare Cash Plan benefit provides the option to claim cash back on everyday healthcare expenses such as optical, dental, health and wellbeing and more.
The opportunity:
- Being a first point of contact for advice and support on technical and process related queries, and providing more formal support options.
- Work on process improvement, where opportunities are identified, and promote awareness of relevant company process across the team.
- Actively track the project activities of each Tech Lead, through regular catch ups and/or reviewing the reporting materials that they generate to their project design authority.
- Periodically review each Tech Lead's L4 project plans.
- With knowledge of each Tech Lead's project activities and plans, provide pro-active guidance and course correction, where potential issues are identified, rather than waiting to be approached when issues arise.
- Support project gate reviews by advising on review pack contents and potentially holding pre-review before the actual gate review takes place.
- To be an escalation route to support realistic cost affective technical delivery solutions (Stakeholders being Head of Actuators (Joe); Equipment EDA (multiple), Head of Equipment Delivery (Ashvin))
- Tailor the level of support and involvement as appropriate, based on the needs of each individual team Tech lead.
- Investigate all potential opportunities of offloading are met for each project
- Provide technical input to Bids in support of Actuator CofEx new business
What we're looking for from you:
Strong power electronics background, ideally with previous design experience of PMSM control systems (could be from Automotive Traction or Defence)
Experience with mixed analogue & digital control electronics design, some specifics include:
Power Inverters (discrete gate drives & 3 phase bridge power stage) / DC-DC converters / Digital Position Encoders / Analogue Position Sensors / Current Sensors & Signal Conditioning / Discrete Control Logic
Experience in the full product development life cycle experience
Experience with Design for Test & Design for Manufacture
Experience with designing for EMC & ENV compliance
Experience of design for high safety integrity (Design Assurance Level / Safety Integrity Level)
At least an appreciation for Systems Engineering, System Architecture Design, Thermal Management techniques, Reliability.
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.
Follow us on LinkedIn (MBDA), X (@MBDA_UK), Instagram (MBDA_UK) and Glassdoor or visit our MBDA Careers website for more information.
#LI-SD1
