The Opportunity

Are you looking for a new opportunity to demonstrate your skills and grow the depth and breadth of your knowledge?  Does working in a multi-skilled, dynamic team motivate you? 

Then look no further… Here at MBDA, we can offer a phenomenal opportunity for you to work on a variety of projects that will stretch your skills and imagination as a Structural Engineer. Working for an internationally recognised company, delivering cutting-edge military systems, you will play a critical role in ensuring that MBDA's products deliver the necessary performance against key customer requirements.

What are we looking for?

• Self-motivated people who are good problem solvers
• Ideally degree qualified in a subject relevant to the role or demonstrable equivalent experience.
• Experience carrying out structural investigations (e.g. linear, non-linear, crash, fatigue, modal and vibration) to derive evidence on which to base product development decisions.
• Experience delivering verbal and written reports our customers.
• Evidence of evaluating structural problems by applying both hand calculations and numerical based tools; e.g. Hypermesh, OptiStruct, Radioss, LS-Dyna, Mathcad, Nastran, Patran, Adams.

What's in it for you?

• Fulfilling work that will stretch and grow your technical knowledge and ability.
• We encourage collaboration and place a strong emphasis on looking after the welfare of its people, whilst supporting their development.
• Various opportunities and support to help you develop your skills and knowledge through both structured and ‘on the job' training.
• Opportunities to shape the development of MBDA UK's structural analysis capabilities.

What would you get?

*Flexible working *opportunities for career progression *paid overtime (subject to level) *great bonus scheme *comprehensive pension scheme *annual salary review *fantastic working environment and site facilities *social, charitable and sporting activities.

The Role

Within this role you will be planning, managing and delivering your own work - ensuring timely delivery of outputs within scope and budgetary constraints.  Typical outputs include deriving structural evidence on which to base product development decisions, developing test requirements and guiding trials/test teams in delivering against requirements.

Proactive communication is vital with our internal and external customers and is an integral part of the role, along with delivering verbal and written reports to our key stakeholders.

What's great about the team?

We are a highly motivated team with a strong desire to improve our effectiveness and influence across MBDA.  We deliver high priority work that is pivotal to structurally clearing MBDA UK's military systems.  

We operate in a supportive and collaborative environment where people feel valued and are encouraged to achieve their full potential.  We encourage knowledge sharing within the team and support opportunities work on a variety of projects simultaneously.