Capability Lead - Weapon System Performance

Capability Lead, Weapon System Performance
Salary: Up to -65,000 depending on experience
Location: Hertfordshire
Working pattern: Hybrid, 4 days per week onsite
Security: BPSS required, British Citizenship required
An exciting opportunity has arisen for a Capability Lead, Weapon System Performance to lead a specialist engineering team responsible for assessing the performance of complex weapon system solutions.
You will lead and develop a team of approximately 12 engineers, with responsibility for building a high-performing and sustainable capability as demand for the team''s expertise continues to grow.
The role
You will be responsible for:

• Leading and developing a team of specialist engineers with varying levels of experience
• Establishing and delivering a compelling vision for the future development of the capability
• Managing recruitment, staff development, knowledge management, capacity planning and objective setting
• Providing pragmatic technical leadership across emerging engineering topics and bids
• Supporting the assessment of weapon system performance using complex models and high-performance computing environments
• Analysing system behaviour across a wide range of operational and design conditions
• Working across the systems engineering lifecycle
• Building effective relationships with project teams, customers and other engineering functions

• Proven experience leading specialist engineering teams and developing technical capability
• Strong knowledge of the systems engineering lifecycle
• Experience providing technical leadership within complex engineering environments
• The ability to develop people, manage capacity and build long-term capability
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Experience of modelling, simulation, performance analysis or similarly complex engineering assessment would be advantageous
• A pragmatic approach to solving technical challenges and supporting bids or emerging requirements