Deputy Chief Engineer Technology

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We believe that mission success does not start with the mission itself. It begins with our people.

Draken also believes in fair reward and recognition for our employees. As such, we offer competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package including up to 12% matching pension contributions, bonus incentives, discounted PMI, electric car scheme, tech vouchers, wellbeing programmes and much more.

The Role

We are currently recruiting for a Deputy to Chief Engineer role is a position within the Draken Chief Technology Officer organisation in support of a wide variety of internal and customer work packages and projects.

This senior management role reports directly to the Chief Engineer Technology, to help provide daily leadership of the Technology Team and deputise for the Chief Engineer Technology.

The Technology Team is responsible for applying systems engineering expertise to key projects, to ensure the Mission System Technologies and projects are delivered and accepted to specification within agreed costs and timescales as part of a tailored LCM process. This senior role requires the ability to communicate both written and verbal complex technical ideas effectively to a wide range of SMEs.

The Deputy Chief Engineer will typically be part of an Integrated Product Team (IPT) and will technically contribute to the performance of the IPT to ensure that the technical system solutions and performance expectations are met or exceeded.

Key Responsibilities

• Report to the Chief Engineer and act as a Deputy for related to Technology Team tasks and programmes.
• Help manage the Company/Technology Team ISO9001 Quality Process - by authoring, managing, maintaining and reviewing Technology Team documentation and procedures, preparing for and supporting internal and external ISO audits.
• Drive and contribute to technical solutions in support projects, programmes and bids.
• Review and provide technical guidance and advice to the Technology Team
• Team coordination, allocation of resources and priorities
• Review and approval of Technical Team documentation
• Hiring and management of Technical Team Personnel
• Review team performance and perform annual appraisals.
• Support meetings on behalf of the Chief Engineer
• Demonstrable track record of technical delivery.
• Significant experience of working within a Systems Engineering environment and/or team through full lifecycle, to include aircraft Systems Integration, Security Architecture, Accreditation & Tempest.
• Detailed knowledge or one or more of the following: Radar System Principles, RF Design Principles, Microwave Antenna Systems, EW system and technologies, aerospace avionic systems, logic and digital control systems, FPGA systems, software engineering, computer networks.
• Experience with AI Technologies and Applications
• Previous or current UK DV Clearance
• • Experience with AI Technologies and Applications
  • Previous or current UK DV Clearance
  CEng 10+ Years, with a proven track record working in a military Electrical/Electronic/RF/Radar/EW Engineering discipline.
• Familiarity with computer network and systems configuration
• Good awareness of aerospace and defence industries, markets, products and technologies.
• Significant experience with the product lifecycle from system requirements, architecture, design, integration, qualification, verification, through to production and support.
• Requirements Management (all levels), methodologies and toolsets.
• Systems Design, methodologies and toolsets.
• Significant experience and understanding of configuration management techniques and associated standards.
• Proven ability to work and deliver to time pressure and deadlines.
• Proven technical leadership role on projects to drive the engineered solution through lifecycle.
• Demonstrable performance in team building, fostering organisational culture and delivering continuous improvement.
  • Highly Desirable:
  • CEng 10+ Years, with a proven track record working in a military Electrical/Electronic/RF/Radar/EW Engineering discipline.
  • Experience with AI Technologies and Applications
  • Previous or current UK DV Clearance

Our employee values

Draken is committed to eliminating unlawful and unfair discrimination and we celebrate the differences that a diverse workforce brings. A range of perspective and talent supports our values and drives our success, with a mix of voices generating better discussions, business decisions and outcomes for all.

At all our sites internationally, every member of the Draken Europe team is accountable to ensure that we are all treated fairly and with respect.

We are also an Armed Forces friendly organisation, and as part of our commitment to the Armed Forces Covenant, welcome applications from veterans and services spouses and partners who met the criteria in our job specifications.

In line with our Disability Confident Commitments, we provide reasonable adjustments to facilitate our interview process, please liaise with us if any reasonable adjustments are required.

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Being ready is not only a matter of when. But where. We provide services in the UK, US and across the NATO countries. Making sure that our allies can manoeuvre around defeat and prepare to prevail.