Through our UK product-development and manufacturing capability, we also design and manufacture technology around genuine operational requirements.

UK Connect Ltd has more than a decade of experience, a national field-engineering capability, more than 3,000 deployments each year and a UK-based 24/7 Network Operations Centre.

About You

You are a hands-on engineer or technician who enjoys making different technologies work together. You are happiest on the bench or in the field getting something working, and you can explain what you built in plain language when asked.

You might currently be a solutions or applications engineer, a field or integration engineer, a network engineer working with wireless and sensor systems, or an engineer in a Defence or IoT technology business looking for a role with more variety, more field time and more interesting problems.

You understand networking, and you are comfortable with wireless communications and low-power sensor systems: how devices connect, how data moves, and what breaks in the real world.

Previous UK Armed Forces service would be useful, but is not essential. Familiarity with how technology is used at the tactical edge matters more than where you learned it.

What You Will Do

• Design Solutions: Take operational requirements and turn them into realistic, deliverable technical solutions.
• Support Customer Conversations: Join the Account Manager and BDM when a technical voice is needed.
• Integrate Technology: Configure and integrate sensors, gateways, networks, software and third-party systems into working end-to-end solutions.
• Build Demonstrations: Assemble, configure and test demonstration and evaluation systems before they go anywhere near a customer.
• Support Trials: Be the technical hands at demonstrations, evaluations, exercises and field trials: setup, operation, troubleshooting and tear-down.
• Support Deployed Systems: Act as the technical contact for sensor and connectivity systems in service with customers.
• Bridge to Engineering: Work daily with our electronics and mechanical engineers: feed requirements and field findings in, carry design intent and constraints out.
• Document Solutions: Produce clear solution designs, configurations, test records and trial reports that engineering, commercial and customers can act on.
• Support the Product: Work with the Business Unit Lead on product direction, turning what you see in the field into product improvements.
• Stay Current: Keep track of relevant technologies, standards and integration options, and bring the good ones to the team.

Experience

We are looking for someone who can demonstrate:

• Hands-on experience integrating, configuring and troubleshooting networked systems.
• Solid IP networking knowledge, with practical wireless experience.
• Experience with low-power sensor networks, telemetry or IoT systems.
• Experience building, testing and supporting demonstration or trial systems.
• The ability to translate between customers, operators and engineers.
• Clear documentation and communication skills.
• A practical, field-ready approach: comfortable working outdoors, on sites and on exercises.
• The ability to work independently and follow through on commitments.
• Willingness to travel regularly across the UK and occasionally overseas, including periods away on trials and exercises.

Experience in any of the following would be particularly useful:

• TAK / Cursor-on-Target
• tactical networks
• CIS
• SATCOM/LEO
• 4G/5G
• unattended sensing
• RF propagation
• edge computing
• systems integration
• Defence experimentation and trials

Company Culture and Values

We have been a certified Great Place to Work for six years running and care about the communities we impact. We give a percentage of our profits each year to our charity, the Farr Foundation, which supports children in getting into STEM subjects. Last year, we supported over 15,000 children.

What's In It for You?

This is an opportunity to be the technical specialist in a growing UK Defence technology business.

You will see the whole journey: the requirement, the solution design, the build, the trial and the deployment, and you will have genuine influence over the products we develop, without having to manage projects or people to do it.

You will work with new technology, real users and a tight, fast-moving team, with the backing of the wider UK Connect Group, including engineering, field delivery, technical specialists and a UK-based 24/7 Network Operations Centre.

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave as standard, with options to increase up to 35 days annual leave.
• Unique benefits points scheme giving access to lucrative offerings (cash vouchers, Merlin passes, National Trust passes, and more).
• Company-wide bonus scheme.
• Enhanced Pension.
• Enhanced Maternity/Paternity Leave.
• Death in Service (4x salary).
• Work within a company whose Executive Chairman has been recognised as ‘One to Watch’ in The LDC Top 50 Most Ambitious Business Leaders Programme.
• Modern and progressive office space.
• Free Parking.
• Café, Gym and Restaurant on-site.
• Opportunity to work within a growing UK Defence technology business.
• Significant opportunity to influence new products and capability.