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Your experience of Weapon or Missile Systems and awareness of Complex Weapons technologies / sub-systems. will help you to join the Future Portfolio Team. As a Future Portfolio Weapon Family Engineer, you will provide the knowledge and decision making required to select the concept options that will respond to Customer Needs.

You will have the opportunity to work for a leading multi-national Defence systems provider which boasts some of most advanced facilities in their areas of expertise. A corporate benefits package and transparent career development opportunities are on offer within this vibrant Engineering environment.
 
About the job:
 
Our client currently requires a Future Portfolio Weapon Family Engineer. This role provides a chance to gain a breadth of perspective across multiple programmes, potential successor programmes and the decision making required to select the concept options that will respond to Customer Needs. This not only covers the technical perspective but will give an overview of the wider business needs. You will be:

Capturing key aspects of Capability Need based on Customer input.
Collation of material from multiple partners to generate solid proposals for Concept options in response to the Capability Need.
Assessment of opportunities against the Military and Portfolio benefit scoring
Input to the Weapon Family strategic plan.
Transversal activities across all domains to ensure cohesion of information across the entire portfolio.
Development of the process and infrastructure to help manage the information banks being captured.
Interface between the Portfolio and delegated partners from the Weapon Family lead.
Reactive activities to the emerging customer queries and needs.

About you:
As a Weapon Family Engineer your skills and qualifications will ideally include:

The ability to forge the essential relationships and influence partners.
The ability to work in an ambiguous space to form a coherent, collated viewpoint
Knowledge and experience of Weapon or Missile Systems and awareness of Complex Weapons technologies / sub-systems.
Someone who can demonstrate passion, integrity, commitment, team spirit, and innovation.
Future Portfolio Weapon Family Engineer
Bristol, Stevenage or Bolton
Hybrid – 2 – 3 days onsite
£35,000 - £55,000 depending on experience
Permanent
 
Keywords: Weapon Engineer, Systems Engineer, Systems, Requirements, Capability Concept development, Customer needs, Systems Design, Missile, Weapon platform, Weapon system, Defence, Military, Maritime, Land, Air, Sea.
 
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.
 
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 this criteria will also be required to undergo security clearance vetting, to SC level.
 
This is a permanent position