Technical Manager - Maritime

An opportunity has arisen in the Group Export Sector of Sales & Business Development for an experienced engineer to exploit and broaden their capabilities and knowledge through operating in a dynamic and challenging environment to define and deliver MBDA’s technical and winning solutions.

Salary: Circa £94,000 depending on experience

Dynamic (hybrid) working: 1 - 2 days per week on-site due to workload classification (travel when required between Bristol and Stevenage)

Security Clearance: British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British citizenship

Restrictions and/or limitations relating to nationality and/or rights to work may apply. As a minimum and after offer stage, all successful candidates will need to undergo HMG Basic Personnel Security Standard checks (BPSS), which are managed by the MBDA Personnel Security Team.

What we can offer you:

• Company Bonus: Bonus of up to 40%
• Car Allowance: £680 per month
• Private Medical Insurance: Employee cover
• Pension: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
• Flexible working: We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
• Enhanced parental leave: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave -enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
• Facilities: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more…

The opportunity:

The ongoing export opportunities on offer to the Sea Ceptor programme require Technical and Military Operations (TMO) to deliver cost competitive, technical solutions for integration on a wide range of maritime platforms, including the rapidly expanding unmanned/hybrid navies.

The purpose of the role is to provide technical management and support within the Naval TMO organisation to define and deliver MBDA’s technical solutions, and help steer the Sea Ceptor export product propositions across the multi-platform maritime domains. The role has Client focus to build and develop relationships with Armed Forces; cross-cutting to ensure best-match technical solutions to meet the range of Export Customer needs; planning and integration to service and deliver the TMO responsibilities across MBDA and different Executive entities; local management to ensure the breadth of export responsibilities are effectively implemented.

The role relies on a close working relationship with the MBDA Sea Ceptor project teams as well as the other stakeholders in the UK weapons programme, including DE&S and WECA.

What will you be doing?

• Bringing together in an efficient way vital stakeholders within MBDA to define and deliver the technical element of the export solution;
• Promoting MBDA capabilities to overseas clients;
• Understanding the environment and the needs of export Customers;
• Meeting the needs of export Customers with winning products;
• Being the technical interface with Shipyards and the Combat System Integrator;
• Addressing the opportunities and threats in the environment;
• Representing MBDA at trade exhibitions, events and demonstrations;
• Providing technical advice to our business development teams.

What we're looking for:

• We need you to have a high degree of self-motivation and drive, and the ability to work both independently and as part of a team;
• We want you to have excellent communication and presentation skills, and the ability to negotiate technical positions and to build relationships with clients;
• You must be highly experienced in engineering solutions, their integration onto platforms and associated costs;
• You must be flexible and be prepared to travel overseas – and work to timescales;
• You must be capable of gaining the trust and respect of Projects in defining technical solutions for export.
• You must be a UK national.
• You should ideally be Stevenage or Bristol based, and willing to spend considerable time in either.

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