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My client, a world leader in the defence sector, requires a Low Observability Engineer to join their team in Bristol, developing and proving stealth capabilities for the latest weapon systems.

Low Observability Engineer

Our client’s Low Observability team supports programmes throughout their product lifecycles, establishing, progressing and delivering against the risk reduction and qualification strategies to bring their products into service. They work closely with related LO teams who undertake Radio Frequency (RF) signature and Infra-red (IR) signature assessments to ensure coherency.

This role involves overseeing and undertaking work package aspects for radar cross-section (RCS) hardware readiness to support product development and qualification, whilst additionally contributing to RCS performance evidence gathering.

Duties will include:
 
Placing requirements on to design authorities and overseeing their readiness and delivery.
Leading mechanical design engineers to produce bespoke fit-for-purpose definitions for manufacture.
Interaction with wider business areas of the company to jointly delivery against requirements.
Managing the supply chain to ensure procurements are on time, on quality and on cost.
Gathering performance baselines that contribute to wider evidence sets as inputs to reporting.
To be considered for this role, applicants will need to be qualified to Higher Education level in subjects such as Physics, Electromagnetics, Electrical, Mechanical or similar.

You will have project co-ordination/management experience, ideally with some supply chain exposure, as well as an appreciation of electrical and mechanical product construction and interfacing, an analytical mind-set and problem-solving abilities.

They are looking for a strong engineering generalist from a complex systems background, with an appreciation (rather than a specialism) of LO domain technologies such as RF or IR, able to understand the driving factors or implications these technologies have on the overall weapon system development.

You will have strong communication capabilities, to enable you to collaborate successfully with a wide range of stakeholders; from internal customers, sub-contractors / suppliers at both engineering and management levels.

You will ideally have experience of leading and tasking others, whilst managing your own workload, setting your own goals and meeting deadlines for delivery

Low Observability Engineer
Bristol
Salary to circa £55k DOE plus benefits (bonus, pension, paid overtime, flexi leave, excellent site facilities)
Hybrid working (project dependent, typically 3 to 4 days per week on-site)
 
Key Skills: Low Observability, Stealth, Defence, Weapon Systems, Weapons, LO, RF, Radio Frequency, IR, Infra-Red, Project co-ordination, Project Management, Stakeholder Management, Communication.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to the nature of work undertaken at our client's site, incumbents of these positions are required to meet special nationality rules and therefore these vacancies are only open to sole British Citizens. Applicants who meet these criteria will also be required to undergo security clearance vetting to the highest level.

Electus Recruitment Solutions provides specialist engineering and technical recruitment solutions to a number of high technology industries. We thank you for your interest in this vacancy. If you don't hear from us within 7 working days, please presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion. You are of course free to resubmit your CV/details in the future and we shall assess your suitability at that time. 
   
This role is a PERMANENT position