Recruiter

Mass Consultants Ltd

Salary

From £29 to £32 per year

Location

Stevenage

Job term

Contract

Job hours

Full time

Senior Component Selection Engineer :

World class Defence Organisation based in Stevenage, Hertfordshire is currently looking to recruit a Senior Component Selection Engineer.

Please Note: you must be eligible for SC (Secret Level) Security Clearance if you’re not already cleared to that level however the company is happy to wait for the clearance to come through.

The contract is initially for 6 months (ongoing after).

The hourly rate is £32 per hour.

Manage Component Selection (as detailed below)
Perform Component suitability risk analysis
Provide analytical component selection advice to designers
Approve the use of components against Project environmental and functional requirements
Support obsolescence reviews, policies, planning, risk aversion & resolution studies
Provide technical support to Purchasing, Manufacturing, Assembly Technologists and reliability experts

Technical expertise, with typically a minimum of 5-8 years ideally within the military, aerospace or automotive environment, relating to one or more of the following component commodities (list in order of preference)……

• Digital Components
• Passives
• Interconnection
• Analog
• Oscillators
Knowledge & Expertise in the field of semi-conductors (digital, analogue)
Component packaging technologies, such as PED's, Lead Free, SMD technology (e.g. QFN's, LGA's...)

Awareness of current Market trends, roadmaps, product life-cycle and supplier performance

Understanding legislation requirements of RoHS, REACH, ITAR, ECCN, etc

IT literate, especially comprehensive use of MS Excel & MS Access

Experience in the use of Team Centre PDM & SAP would be an advantage

Qualifications & experience required :

• Formal technical engineering/craft apprenticeship to NVQ Level 3/TR23/TR21/HNC or 5 years+ experience as a skilled person

Recruiter

Mass Consultants Ltd

Salary

From £30 to £36 per hour

Location

Stevenage

Job term

Contract

Job hours

Full time

Systems Engineers :

Due to a substantial increase in workload a World Class Defence Organisation based in Stevenage, Hertfordshire is currently looking to recruit 8 Systems Engineers who could come from a variety of different backgrounds; Systems Design Engineers / Systems Architects / Integration & Validation Engineers etc.

Please Note: you must be eligible for SC (Secret Level) Security Clearance.

The contract is initially for 6 months (ongoing and long-term thereafter).
Department offering hourly rates of £30 - £36 per hour.

Systems Engineer Description:

Systems Engineers with strong knowledge of several of the following System Design related tools and experience are of interest:

: Electronics Integration and Proving skills
: DOORS
: SysML
: UML
: MATLAB
: Simulink
: Rhapsody
: Aristisan
: Excel
: Requirements flow down and analysis
: Interface Documentation

Academic Qualification:

Ideal - BSc/MSc/MEng in systems engineering, electrical engineering, physics, or equivalent.

Experience Requirements:

Candidates from the defence, aerospace industry are ideal however other industries will be considered so long as you posses the necessary Systems Engineering skills and experience.

An ideal area of your previous work could come from the following domains;
Missile/Weapon Systems
Systems Combat
Command & Control Systems

In addition the successful candidate will…………

• have the ability to visualize and analyse complex systems
• have good analysis skills
• have good verbal, presentation and written communication skills
• have practical knowledge of basic systems engineering principles and processes.
• be able to work with engineering teams, including in-house and contractor personnel
• be pro-active and be capable of working on their own initiative with a minimum of supervision
• have good working experience in more than one phase of the engineering life cycle, with sufficient experience of the total life cycle to ensure a good understanding of adjacent phases and through-life engineering issues

Recruiter

European Recruitment

Salary

Competitive

Location

Stevenage

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

WHAT will be the main responsibilities for this Senior Protocol Stack role?

- Assist in the Development of real-time embedded software for the LTE product range
- In particular for the RRC and NAS protocol stack development
- Design, Implementation and Test of real-time embedded components forming part of the LTE Protocol Stack

WHAT are the essential skills for this Senior Protocol Stack role?

- Experience in LTE and UMTS either in handset or base-station development
- Development experience of Real-time embedded application development in C
- Knowledge of RRC and NAS
- Knowledge of basic principles of LTE Layer 2 and Layer 1
- Knowledge of ClearCase, ClearQuest and SDL

If this position sounds like you please to forward on your CV - I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Recruiter

Mass Consultants Ltd

Salary

From £38,000 to £45,000 per year + Annual Bonus, Flexitime, Pension, Healthcare, Overtime

Location

Stevenage

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Principal Engineer - PCB Technologies:

Highly successful Defence Organisation based in Stevenage, Hertfordshire is currently looking to recruit a Principal Engineer - PCB Technologies.

Please Note: you must be eligible for SC (Secret Level) Security Clearance if you're not already cleared to that level.

The salary on offer is between £38k - £45k + Outstanding benefits including; overtime, flexitime, Annual bonus scheme, pension and company healthcare etc.

Principal Engineer - PCB Technologies Job Description:

To select PCB technologies for boards on projects taking into account the needs of cost, reliability and ability to survive the product environmental requirements.

* Propose PCB technologies and board lay-ups for projects, compatible with the requirements of the circuit design and environmental requirements and commensurate with the equipment mechanical packaging schemes and Bare Board PCB supplier capabilities.
* Use simulation and modelling tools to perform mechanical shock and vibration plus thermal modelling of boards.
* Provide modelling data for PCB's to Mechanical Engineering to ensure coherence in the design process at overall packaging level.
* Participate in maintaining harmonised (mainly UK/Fr) technical standards & process documentation for PCB layout and board assembly. This activity requires periodic international travel by air/rail.
* Identify research topics, provide support & technical leadership to deliver research activities including external collaborative projects.
* Provide specialist advice and support across projects and to other functions as appropriate, for instance, in the selection of PCB Suppliers.
* Working effectively in collaboration with mechanical & electronic designers, PCB layout group, PCB fabricators & manufacturing (board assembly)
* Being able to clearly communicate to mechanical & electronic designers any PCB limitations associated with their initial proposals and influencing the adoption of alternative solutions

Skills and Experience:

Ideally degree qualified or equivalent
Relevant experience in the field of PCB technologies, including.......

Board (& Interconnect) Level:

The effects of Environments on PCB's (vibration, temperature, humidity, altitude, etc)
Mechanical design considerations (mounting, chassis, materials, mass, etc)
Board technology selection (rigid, flex-rigid, flexible, ceramic, etc)
Interconnect selection (flexi-rigid, flexible circuits, sculptured, cable, etc)
PCB construction & layer definitions
High Speed / Signal Integrity design constraints
Board thermal characteristics & constraints
Board manufacturing & assembly techniques & processes
PCB fabricators/procurement liaison & support
Designing for Produceability, Testability, Rework/Repair, Environment, Reliability

Component Level:

Awareness of component packaging technologies (construction, assembly), materials (characteristics, selection), COTS, PEDs, connector types, etc

Tools:

Experience of working with Mentor (legacy) &/or preferably Zuken CR5000 (current tool) for schematic entry, board outline & placement
Capability to perform thermal & mechanical modeling

Recruiter

Mass Consultants Ltd

Salary

From £35,000 to £55,000 per year + Annual Bonus, Flexitime, Pension, Healthcare, Overtime

Location

Stevenage

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

World Class Defence Organisation based in Stevenage, Hertfordshire is currently looking to recruit 4x Senior Safety and Reliability Engineers.

Please note: the Organisation is also happy to consider candidates who are suitably qualified in only Safety or Reliability.........

Safety-only candidates should be experienced in hazard identification and management, risk analysis and the production of safety arguments/cases and ALARP statements.

Reliability-only candidates should be experienced in the production of FMECAs and reliability predictions, analysis of test and in-service reliability data and production of reliability cases.

Please Note: you must be eligible for SC (Secret Level) Security Clearance if you're not already cleared to that level.

The Safety and Reliability Engineering department is looking to fill a variety of roles at different levels - so as a result the salary banding is wide and salary’s offered will be dependant on experience and skills – banding approx £35k - £55k and comes with great benefits including; overtime, flexitime, company and individual bonus scheme, pension and company healthcare etc.

Job Description:

Production of Reliability and Safety Cases.

Duties include:

Generation of reliability and safety programme plans and agreement of such programmes with the project and the customer, commensurate with the requirements of the DEF STAN 00-40 series of standards or DEF-STAN 00-56, as applicable. Responsible for the generation, promotion and realization of the stated strategy on a given project.

Conduct a series of system and sub-system reliability activities in support of this plan during all lifecycle phases including, but not limited to:

Production of FMECAs
Preparation of reliability and maintainability predictions
Reliability growth and demonstration test planning, including analysis of the results
Provide support to internal and external project Reliability Panels and Committees
With the reliability focal points, assist in the management and integration of these activities with system engineering and design programs to ensure the timely delivery of material supporting the reliability case.
Liaison with other functions in order to derive reliability requirements.

Conduct a series of system and sub-system safety activities in support of this plan during all lifecycle phases including, but not limited to:

Hazard Identification exercises (SWIFT and HAZOP)
Hazard management and risk analysis, including Fault Tree and event tree analysis
Construction of safety arguments and ALARP statements
Provide support to internal and external project Safety Panels and Committees
With the safety focal points, assist in the management and integration of these activities with system engineering and design programs to ensure the timely delivery of material supporting the safety case.
Liaison with other functions in order to derive safety requirements and hazards.

Working with systems team in order to demonstrate satisfaction of safety and reliability requirements

Performance Indicators:

Ability to construct a safety argument that is acceptable to the end customer, project Chief Engineer and the Independent Guided Weapon Safety Officer

Ability to construct a reliability argument that is acceptable to the end customer and project Chief Engineer

Ability to deliver supporting information (reliability/safety case reports, hazard analysis, Functional Failure Analysis, FMECA, reliability predictions, etc) that are timely and acceptable to the above stakeholder community.

Bid preparation is appropriately scoped in terms of complexity and level of effort to fit the nature of the proposal.

Recruiter

Mass Consultants Ltd

Salary

From £35,000 to £45,000 per year + Annual Bonus, Flexitime, Pension, Healthcare, Overtime

Location

Stevenage

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

World class Defence Organisation based in Stevenage, Hertfordshire is currently looking to recruit 3x Senior Environmental Engineers / Environmental Test Engineers.

Please Note: you must be able to gain SC (Secret Level) Security Clearance if you’re not already cleared to that level.

The salary on offer is approx £35k - £45k (dependant on skills and experience) and comes with great benefits including; overtime, flexitime, company and individual bonus scheme, pension and healthcare etc.

Environmental Engineer Job Description:

To undertake a full range of engineering activities with the environmental skill area, applying specialist technical knowledge and advice to chief design engineers, projects and sub-contract design authorities.

Typical Duties include:

• Writing Environmental Requirement Specifications (ERSs), and subsequent documentation including Proving Plans, Proving Requirements and Proving Instructions in support of product development.
• Assessing the effects of the environmental requirements on product design and implementing a consistent test and assessment logic across each Project.
• Plan, prepare for, and oversee the conduct of, trial programmes at system, subsystem and component level within internal facilities and at external test houses.
• Writing technical reports in support of environmental engineering.
• Providing expertise in requirements management and preparing compliance statements in support of Certification.
• Applying technical knowledge in a range of simulation techniques (including data acquisition, signal processing & analysis tools) as well as climatic, shock & vibration and Structural Mechanical & fatigue testing.
• Providing expertise in the measurement and analysis of operational environments including field trials and flight data analysis in support of Requirements Specification development.
• Technical management of the environmental programmes - preparing compliance statements for Project, sub-system Design Authorities and the Customer.
• Responsible for managing assigned milestone deliverables associated with Environmental Engineering activities.

Experience Requirements:

• Thorough understanding of the environmental life cycle.
• Educated to degree or equivalent level
• Knowledge of Vibration, shock and climatic test techniques and systems.
• Knowledge of DEF STANs and related specs relevant to the discipline.
• Knowledge of Test and Measurement Instrumentation.
• Knowledge of signal processing and analysis.
• Good communication skills at all level both verbally and in writing.

Recruiter

Mass Consultants Ltd

Salary

From £32 to £35 per hour

Location

Stevenage

Job term

Contract

Job hours

Full time

Weapon System Simulation Engineer :

Due to a substantial increase in workload a World class Defence Organisation based in Stevenage, Hertfordshire is currently looking to recruit a Weapon System Simulation Engineer.

Please Note: you must be eligible for SC (Secret Level) Security Clearance.

The contract is initially for 6 months (ongoing after).

The department are offering hourly rates of £32 - £35 per hour.

Skills and Knowledge:

• Degree or equivalent in relevant discipline
• Experience of working in Simulation and Experimentation or similar area.

Essential skills:
• Modern programming languages (C++, C#, Java)
• Networking & network protocols

Experience in two or more of the following
• Development environments (Visual Studio, Eclipse)
• Distributed simulation standards / Protocols (DIS, HLA, DDS)
• Visualisation programming (DirectX, OpenGL, Graphics/Games Engines)
• Real-time software development
• Military Communications and Datalinks

Ideally experience from the following related areas:
• System engineering
• Software engineering
• System integration

Accountabilities:

• Support and/or Lead the design and development of System TestBeds & components of Complex Weapon Systems covering Land, Sea and Air based products.
• The Weapon System Simulation and Experimentation Department spans the UK, France, Italy and Germany providing specialised defence simulation capabilities for concept exploration, programme development and user experimentation and training.
• The role covers design and development of leading-edge software applications to support battlefield simulations, working in close collaboration with subject matter experts from across Land, Air and Sea defence programmes. Each programme is different, but commonly extends to simulation of many of the battlefield participants; Command and Control structures, Platforms and Weapon Systems.
• As a member of a focussed and dynamic team, you will explore and exploit new technologies, in both the defence and commercial markets, and take ownership of their design, development and integration to enhance our international SE capability.
• Your flexibility, motivation and experience will help you to embrace the many technical challenges that our business presents; whether that is the simulation of a new weapon, the integration of an international test bed or the use of your software in warfighting simulations.
• Develop software components, applications and analysis tools for WSSE TestBeds.
• Support development of simulation architectures to produce testbeds that map meaningfully to weapon system architectures.
• Support design of testbeds to support Experimentation, with analysis and reporting as appropriate to the level of experiment
• Maintain Software Design Records and configuration control of testbeds. Create test plans, carry out testing and report test results for components and/or testbeds.
• Plan, control and deliver assigned project tasks or work packages, and make an input as required to cross-functional or international projects/investigations.
• Liaise with customer e.g. Review Customer’s needs, present findings and promote the WSSE System TestBed Through Life philosophy.
• Undertake the development of system & WSSE concepts and ideas for the resolution of Technical Problems and future work.
• Undertake Experiment data analysis & Technology research and development activities

Recruiter

Mass Consultants Ltd

Salary

From £34 to £38 per hour

Location

Stevenage

Job term

Contract

Job hours

Full time

World class Defence Organisation based in Stevenage, Hertfordshire is currently looking to recruit 2 Simulation and Modelling Engineers.

Please Note: you must be eligible for SC (Secret Level) Security Clearance.

The contract is initially for 6 months (ongoing after).

Department offering hourly rates of £34 - £38 per hour.

Simulation and Modelling Engineers Job Description:

• Perform analysis of data gathered during ground trials and a telemetry firing.
• Identify problems within the system, report these and propose changes to the system design
• Model suggested improvements to system design.
• Update the software requirements specification and provide test vectors to the software team to enable software test
• Attend trials site and participate in data gathering activities
• Make engineering decisions within own sphere of responsibility and delegated authority.
• Technical excellence exhibited in approach to problems and objectives
• Evaluate technical issues in order to develop proposals for investigations and/or solutions, including process improvements.
• Keep up to date in relevant technical areas, develop skills and capabilities to be able to provide more effective services (seeking and sharing good practice and knowledge to continuously improve practices), and supply technical support and expertise to others as required.
• Analysis and studies carried out in a suitably proportional way
• Carry out investigations into a full range of problems, issues or developments and develop and prepare solutions, individually or as a member of a project team.
• Act as the main point of contact with customers (internal and external) and/or suppliers and collaborators in assigned areas on engineering matters, to resolve a full range of problems and issues and to maintain an awareness in both parties of priorities and objectives.

Skills and Knowledge:

• Significant, relevant experience (Knowledge of RF systems would be an advantage but not essential)
• Substantial analytical and problem solving skills
• Radar Systems studies (Trade off studies, requirements apportionment, sensitivity studies etc.)
• Math Modelling including Model Based Design (using Fortran, C, Matlab, Simulink, Statemate)
• Signal processing (e.g. Target Detection, Target Acquisition, Image processing, particularly Doppler Beam Sharpening)
• Algorithm development (Digital filtering, DFT processing, Track formation and propagation etc.)
• System and Sub-System Specification (Knowledge of DOORS an advantage)
• System Test, Integration and Certification, Trials Analysis

Recruiter

Mass Consultants Ltd

Salary

From £35,000 to £45,000 per year + Annual Bonus, Flexitime, Pension, Healthcare, Overtime

Location

Stevenage

Job term

Permanent

Job hours

Full time

Principal Concepts Engineer :

Highly successful Defence Organisation based in Stevenage, Hertfordshire is currently looking to recruit a Principal Concepts Engineer.

This role presents a fantastic opportunity to someone who would consider themselves as an innovator, inventor and someone who genuinely is capable of thinking outside of the box in order to develop highly complex future military systems from a blank piece of paper. The role requires the candidate to be visionary and to be able to come up with conceptual ideas. Backgrounds could include; PhD, Physics, Aerodynamics, Propulsion, Robotics etc.

The salary on offer is between £35k - £45k+ Outstanding benefits including; overtime, flexitime, annual bonus scheme, pension and company healthcare etc.

Principal Concepts Engineer Job Description:

To undertake concepts studies to define potential business opportunities, generate outline solutions to them and perform an initial assessment of these solutions and communicate the results throughout the business.

SKILLS & EXPERIENCE:

• Degree (or equivalent) in a relevant discipline
• A good appreciation of Concept Engineer core skills
• Good verbal and written communication skills
• Analytical and problem solving skills
• Able to work on own initiative
• Good team member
• A flexible and adaptable approach, able o cope with uncertainty
• Innovative
• Commercial and financial awareness
• Understanding of business strategy
• Awareness of emerging technologies

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Plan, control and deliver assigned projects or work packages, and make an input as required to cross functional projects/investigations, ensuring requirements are delivered to plan
• Generate concepts (outline system definitions) in response to a potential opportunity, including the definition of the opportunity and assessment of options against it, recommending technical way ahead for the opportunity
• Identify and evaluate the key technical issues to understand the trade-offs within the potential solutions, and to scope and recommend further investigations
• Prepare concept white papers, reporting the outcome of concept studies to Technical and S&BD
• Provide effective support to customers on assigned tasks
• Delivering information to address the customers issues
• Support the identification of business opportunities and the preparation of bids in area(s) of expertise to facilitate the development of the highest quality bids
• Make engineering decisions within own sphere of responsibility and delegated authority
• Provide expertise and innovation in concept workshops and brain storming sessions
• Take a broad view across multiple capabilities & systems composing a portfolio and how these relate to planning and research