Job title: Field Support – Senior Trials and Acceptance Engineer
Location: Broad Oak – Portsmouth. We offer a range of hybrid and flexible working arrangements – please speak to your recruiter about the options for this particular role.
Salary: Circa £ 45,000 (depending on skills and experience)

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES:

Essential:

• Significant experience integrating Combat Systems and CMS and experience of Combat System Integration and conduct of successful Acceptance Trials at end user environments
• Experience of the production, coordination and presentation of trials and acceptance documentation
• Demonstrable experience of stakeholder management and customer reporting
• This role requires regular travel outside of the New Malden/ Portsmouth areas and a commitment to work for short to medium length periods in Plymouth, Glasgow, Rosyth etc., as required by the various platform programmes. Potentially, occasional foreign travel may also be needed

Desirable:

• Experience of SI/CMS Hardware, with a level of technical understanding regarding hardware aspects across the lifecycle would be useful
• Experience in supporting investigations and resolution of system issues arising during trials

• To conduct Shared Infrastructure (SI) and Command Management System (CMS) Harbour and Sea Acceptance Trials within RN and commercial dockyards
• Plan for and co-ordinate attendance at the trials site/platform, ensuring that all documentation and test apparatus is available at the start of the event
• Maintain a good working relationship with all CMS stakeholders within the MoD, NCSISS and BAE Systems organisations
• Conduct SI and CMS Harbour Acceptance Trials at Customer sites
• Provide on-going progress reports during the HAT/SAT activities, ensuring that any functional issues or potential concerns for completion are highlighted. Then formally report on the outcome of the SI/CMS trials on completion
• Responding to functional and technical CMS queries arising from the Acceptance events, with support from colleagues or subcontractors as required