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Integration Manager – New Swindon Facility (Build-from-Scratch Role)
At TEKEVER – Driving Unmanned Technology Innovation in Europe
Revolutionise global safety with the European leader in AI-driven unmanned systems.
TEKEVER operates at the forefront of digital, defence, security and space innovations, combining AI, systems engineering, data science and aerospace technology across four core areas:
- Maritime surveillance (surveillance-as-a-service for real-time intelligence)
- Airborne platforms (AR3, AR3 EVO and AR5 – 10,000+ mission hours in Ukraine)
- UK leadership position (part of £400M OVERMATCH programme)
- Societal impact (protecting infrastructure, reducing complex risks, transforming global safety standards)
Our motto: "The right information, at the right time, for critical decision-making."
About the Role
As Integration Manager at TEKEVER’s Swindon site, you’ll lead the creation of a new integration/acceptance test cell from zero to serial production — raising the right information, at the right time, for critical decision-making.
This hands-on leadership role demands cross-functional expertise, team-building and hands-on experience in systems integration, test, and quality control. You’ll:
- Design the cell’s layout, equipment, processes and shop-floor routines
- Develop a mission_readiness culture and a process-driven team
- Partner with UK and Portugal manufacturing sites to industrialise AR3/AR3 EVO/AR5 production
Slotting into the **time block between Manufacturing Engineering, Product Engineering and the customer', this function results in transparent, quality-validated configurations which result in flight-ready deliveries’ culminating in customers that rely wholeheartedly on our capability. Your decisions shape a UK legacy in drone manufacturing, via Tekever supporting the Royal Air Force in their StormShroud programme.
This is the role: You are not just integrating aircraft — you shape the technology, people, processes, and elite engineering craft that decide where the company’s revenue and reputation are.
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### Key Responsibilities
✅ Build the Cell: From Floor to Final-Aircraft.
- Design & equip Swindon’s integration and test cell:
- Define test bays, payload alignment, calm zones, ESD control, and material flow
- Procure critical equipment & tools (consulting with finance, manufacturing, supply chain)
- Document processes for:
- Mechatronics assembly (torque, bonding, grounding, harness termination)
- Test procedures (functional, environmental, pre-flight readiness)
- Quality plans and configuration records
✅ Scale Teams & Systems in Lockstep:
- Hire and build the integration team:
- Role profiles, transition plans, training strategies
- Coordinate with HR and engineering for onboarding
- Lead an SMT of technicians, engineers, and testers – ensuring rapid performance and safety
- Drive culture, ownership and continuous improvement from day one
✅ Industrialize New Platforms:
- Collaborate with UK and Tekever Portugal sites to transfer:
- AR3 and AR5 production processes to Swindon at scale
- Align test strategies as volumes ramp up
- Feed productivity and quality feedback into engineering teams (DFM/DFA, DFTest)
✅ Owning End-to-End Delivery:
- Relay engineering to product teams and customers:
- Validate requiring processes for certification
- Handle Factory Acceptance Tests and flight-readiness approvals directly with UK MoD and ally customers
- Shift lead and KPI-driven execution:
- Schedule testing and tracking
- Identify/mitigate blocker for the OEM المصن López Manufacturing and Operations.
✅ Quality and Adherence Above All:
- Everything follows Tekever’s controlled standards
- AS9100 & process excellence (procedures, escruiting)
- Maintain base-level configuration baselines and calibration accuracy
- Handle customer visits and any unacceptable non-compliance
✅ Continuous Improvement:
- Optimise shop-floor operations:
- Kaizen principles, Lean methodologies, and data-driven actions
- Lower rework rates, improve yield, shorten cycle times
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✅ Health, Safety and Compliance:
- Zero room for error in regulatory adherence:
- ESD, battery safety, lifting, and UK security clearance compliance
- Exercise full accountability for workforce well-being and site security
### Requirements & Qualifications
└⋅ Essential (The Must-Haves):
- Proven record standing up cells in engineering/real-float:
- From equipment/process design → scale up to expected volume production
- Experience in products at this industrial complexity level:
- Aircraft, defence, automotive or high-tech components
- Team captain and taming spirit in regulated environments:
- Candidate recruits, trains, retains and scales
- Communications:
- Interfaces smoothly with operations, hunts quality and supply chain expectations
- Security/Mandatory and Perquisiteachelor sh
- SC clearance in UK, with palmetto abilities to gain NGSS level.
└⋅ Nice-to-Have:
- UAS, aerospace or aircraft integration (AR3/AR5 exposure is a bonus).
- Lean production/6Sigma belts.
- Engineering qualifications (Mechatronic, Illustrated BAFS, or amalgamated-level electronics.
- Hands-on EO/IR/SAR payload experience.
Geographical Extra: Depending on workplace flexibility (UK work in Swindon, or reciprocal for swallows)
### Benefits
- Challenging impact at scale—Be the backbone of £400M’s new facility.
- Fair wage _by workload, experience—competitive salary structure
- Company Pension Match (up to 10%)
- Time for purpose
- 25 days annual leave
- 8 days of UK holidays
- Emphasis on long-term, careers plotted with purpose as well as security.
- Toys that empower:
- EV scheme
- Payroll technology insurance
- Workplace culture – equal opportunity and inclusivity
If this role beckons to you, don’t hesitate to apply or ask further [contact detail]—but ignite your curiosity now by reading Tekever’s LinkedIn [tekever.com/uk/projects].
This is a uniquely structured opportunity to build from nothing in a pivotal area—moving champions to future!
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