Functional UK V&V Lead

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Functional UK V&V Lead

Salary:£50000 - £57000 per annum
Location:Bristol, South West, England
Consultant:Neil Tovey
Telephone:01202 204099
Email:neil@electusrecruitment.co.uk
Your experience of System Engineering, (specifically Verification and Validation and Certification) and proven team leadership will help you to lead a team to deliver Certificates of Design into missile system programmes.

You will have an exciting opportunity to work for a leading multi-national Defence systems provider which boasts some of most advanced facilities in their areas of expertise, whilst working closely with Customers to achieve evidence acceptance, gaining visibility and recognition through delivery of key contractual milestones. 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 Functional UK Verification & Validation Lead to help the British and Polish Armies fulfil the full potential of the system and to extend and tailor the capability for existing and emerging export contracts. You will lead the UK programme for the functional systems engineering team.

Key to this role is the ability to lead a growing team of systems engineers to ensure certification deliveries timescales are met under challenging conditions.
With an in-service capability to support and capability enhancements to deliver, across a number of customers, it is a great place to build breadth of experience or to put your existing skills and experience to use to deliver military capability.

The successful candidate will be comfortable adapting themselves and their approach to the challenge at hand; they will maintain vision amongst complexity and be adept at communicating this vision to drive, engage and influence partners.

About you:
As a Functional UK V&V Lead you will have;
  • Experience of systems engineering process across the lifecycle and managing a team to deliver Certificates of Design into programmes.
  • The ability to adapt to new challenges assessing evidence from various sources.
  • Experience of DOORS, requirements management processes.
  • Be comfortable adapting themselves and their approach to the challenge at hand; they will maintain vision amongst complexity and be adept at communicating this vision to drive, engage and influence partners.
  • Ability to organise and manage a small team of systems engineers to ensure they are efficiently working to meet the plans.
Verification & Validation Engineer
Bristol – 3 days onsite
Up to £57000
Permanent
 
Keywords: Design Certification, Integration, Verification, Validation, Team lead, Manager, Trial clearance, Missile, System certification, Platform integration, Flight clearance, Design certificates, Stakeholders, Weapon system, System, Sub-system.
 
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.
Neil Tovey