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# Land Ceptor Ground Integration Trials Lead

- **Company:** MBDA S.A.S.
- **Location:** Stevenage, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Configuration Management, Interoperability, Software Configuration Management
- **Published:** September 6, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.securityclearedjobs.com/external-redirect-registration?JobId=802081713&LinkSource=JobDetails

## About the Role

We are looking for an engineer with the following skills:

 * Good verbal and written communication skills;
 * Experience communicating at an appropriate level with a wide and varied range of both engineering and management stakeholders;
 * Experience working within a large team, across multiple sites and with multiple departments;
 * Experience working on ground-based integration and proving, particularly previous experience in some or all of the following: Trundle, EMC, Interoperability and Thermal trials;
 * Experience with configuration management and defect reporting.

Experience in these areas would also be beneficial, though formal and on-the-job training will be available:

 * Basic understanding of network / cable assembly drawings;
 * Fault finding and route cause analysis at subsystem integration level;
 * Experience in customer facing roles.

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## Description

We are looking for a broad-based Trials Engineer who will be able to deliver Ground Integration Trials. The role will include:

 * Taking ownership of test artefacts, ensuring requirement coverage is achieved and configuration control is maintained.
 * Leading a small team to conduct the ground integration test events and review the results generated by the conduct.
 * Reporting on the progress of the testing as well as producing the formal report for the results of the qualification period.
 * Working with stakeholders across the project, from within partner companies and from the customer community, to plan trials to demonstrate integration and gather evidence to qualify Land Ceptor from a Ground Trials perspective.
 * Ensuring the successful facilitation of each event with stakeholders, including external test houses.
 * Liaising with the systems engineering team and design teams to ensure adequate trials data is acquired and to investigate and resolve design issues.
 * Supporting safe and reliable trials, including developing and maintaining risk assessments, management of hardware and software assets and control of hardware and software configuration.
 * Having an understanding of security and its impacts on a trial environment.

This is a great opportunity to become a member of an expanding team delivering key aspects of the latest generation of GBAD system programmes and interfacing with the end Customer and User teams.


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