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Simulator Engineer - HWIL
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Simulator Systems Engineer - Hardware-in-the-Loop Team
Salary: Up to £46,000 depending on experience
Dynamic (hybrid) working: 4 days per week on-site due to workload classification
Security Clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship
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…
The opportunity:
We are looking for an ambitious engineer with a growth mindset to join our unique team. If you're the right person for us, you will seek a supportive environment, surrounded by passionate experts, in a driven team delivering a capability to support and optimise missile development.
Our Hardware-in-the-Loop (HWIL/ HIL) team conduct the most complete test of missiles without conducting an actual firing and will soon become the National Missile Evaluation Centre. We combine real missile hardware with complex, real-time simulations and specialist physical equipment to recreate the conditions experienced during flight. We are MBDA's Missile test track.
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You'll work directly with multi-axis flight motion simulators, antenna positioning systems, control equipment and test hardware, supporting a capability at the heart of missile development and proving. As part of a small multidisciplinary HWIL engineering team, you'll take responsibility for keeping our simulator equipment safe, reliable and available.
You'll be joining a specialist engineering environment unlike most conventional maintenance or controls roles. You'll have the opportunity to work with sophisticated equipment, learn how missile systems are tested and validated, and develop knowledge across mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, controls and simulation disciplines. Because HWIL brings together so many different technologies, the role offers considerable variety and opportunities to broaden your engineering experience. You'll work alongside experienced engineers and technical specialists while developing expertise in a capability that is central to MBDA's missile development programmes.
You will be reactive and proactive, involved in planned and corrective maintenance activities. This is a hands-on role where physical activity is inherent.
Indicative work would be diagnosing faults and helping return equipment to service following breakdowns. Reading and interpreting mechanical and electrical engineering drawings. Supporting equipment upgrades, modifications and obsolescence activities. Helping improve equipment reliability, maintainability and availability. Supporting installation, commissioning and acceptance of new or upgraded equipment. Contributing ideas to improve the way our HWIL facilities are operated and maintained. Missile testing is varied, and you'll regularly encounter new engineering challenges, so you'll need to be comfortable investigating unfamiliar systems and working methodically towards a solution.
What we're looking for from you:
You do not need to have experience in every area listed below. We're looking for someone with a strong practical engineering background and experience in one or more of the following:
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- Hydraulics or servo-hydraulic systems
- Electro-mechanical systems
- Control systems
- Motion control or servo systems
- Able to interpret mechanical and electrical drawings
- Workshop skills (hand and electrical tools)
- Some activities may involve working at height
- Experience with CAD, particularly CREO, would also be useful but is not essential.
Willing to work as part of a small team responsible for the Hardware-In-The-Loop operating environment. Dynamic in your approach and willing to work flexibly when required.
We welcome applicants from a range of engineering backgrounds. You may have gained your experience through:
- A Degree in any of; Mechanical, Electrical, Electronic, Mechatronics, Robotics, Aerospace or a related engineering discipline.
- HNC/HND.
- Engineering apprenticeship.
We're more interested in your engineering ability, practical experience and willingness to learn than in you matching every requirement.
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.
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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.
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