Capability Lead - Weapon System Performance
Job Description
Capability Lead, Weapon System Performance
Salary: Up to £65,000 depending on experience
Location: Hertfordshire
Working pattern: Hybrid, 4 days per week onsite
Security: BPSS required, British Citizenship required
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Capability Lead, Weapon System Performance to lead a specialist engineering team responsible for assessing the performance of complex weapon system solutions.
You will lead and develop a team of approximately 12 engineers, with responsibility for building a high-performing and sustainable capability as demand for the team's expertise continues to grow.
The role
You will be responsible for:
You will have:
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.
Salary: Up to £65,000 depending on experience
Location: Hertfordshire
Working pattern: Hybrid, 4 days per week onsite
Security: BPSS required, British Citizenship required
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Capability Lead, Weapon System Performance to lead a specialist engineering team responsible for assessing the performance of complex weapon system solutions.
You will lead and develop a team of approximately 12 engineers, with responsibility for building a high-performing and sustainable capability as demand for the team's expertise continues to grow.
The role
You will be responsible for:
- Leading and developing a team of specialist engineers with varying levels of experience
- Establishing and delivering a compelling vision for the future development of the capability
- Managing recruitment, staff development, knowledge management, capacity planning and objective setting
- Providing pragmatic technical leadership across emerging engineering topics and bids
- Supporting the assessment of weapon system performance using complex models and high-performance computing environments
- Analysing system behaviour across a wide range of operational and design conditions
- Working across the systems engineering lifecycle
- Building effective relationships with project teams, customers and other engineering functions
You will have:
- Proven experience leading specialist engineering teams and developing technical capability
- Strong knowledge of the systems engineering lifecycle
- Experience providing technical leadership within complex engineering environments
- The ability to develop people, manage capacity and build long-term capability
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
- Experience of modelling, simulation, performance analysis or similarly complex engineering assessment would be advantageous
- A pragmatic approach to solving technical challenges and supporting bids or emerging requirements
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.