Principal Test Engineer - Simulation

Principal Synthetic Environment Test Engineer

Farnborough (GU14)

Permanent

Wellbeing is at the core to our culture, allowing employees to flourish and to achieve their full potential. Our people are important to us, and we take pride in ourwellbeing programmes and policies that support individuals including,mental health first aiders and readily available support through our extensive employee assistance programme.

Come and join our expanding Electronic Warfare Operations Support Group (EWOS) which is made up of 60+ electronic warfare specialists. From all manner of backgrounds,our engineers, scientists, and ex-military personnel combine their experience to help our customers achieve their true operational potential and help keep their people and platforms safe.

We are building a new team led by our Engineering Manager at a state-of-the-art test and evaluation facility at a client site in Farnborough. You will help plan and support domestic and international trials within the facility, while working with both present and future technology.

Working autonomously at Farnborough with unprecedented access to the customer. Recognising and relaying customer requests, demands, and comments to our Lincoln location and as the project progresses, given on-site presence, you will be crucial to ensure that deployment, verification, and validation are successful. You will develop into the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for the project facility acting as the main point of contact for stakeholder queries.

The invaluable experience you’ll bring, to help us achieve more:

Joining a large project at the initial stages, you will lead a small team in the setup, test and teardown of the simulation environment, to achieve key stakeholder milestones.

This will mean you will be expected to bring your experience to nurture and coach junior team members to bring out their full potential.

Essential experience:

* Experience managing a team

* Relevant Simulation Environment Test experience

* Experience with data capture and analysis

* Experience interpreting technical documentation for use within the Simulation Environment

* Familiar with developing and carrying out testing on complex systems comprised of software and hardware

Desirable experience:

* Defence Industry knowledge of EW systems

* RF experience

* Coding experience (MATLAB/Simulink)

Our non-negotiables:

Due to the highly secure nature of the projects that you will be involved with, you must be:

* A UK National and eligible to work in the UK

* Eligible to obtain and maintain a UK Government DV-level security clearance

Package:

* Salary £43,000 to £61,000 DOE

* 25 days annual leave inclusive of up to 3 days Christmas shut-down

* Buy or sell up to 5 days’ annual leave

* Annual Wellbeing allowance

* Two pension schemes to choose from

* Private Medical Insurance + discounts for additional family members

* Life Assurance scheme up to 4 x salary

* Share Save scheme

* Electric/Hybrid Car leasing scheme

* Cycle to work scheme

* Retail discounts

* Career development support

Apply today to see how working for MASS could work for you