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# Defence Ground Integration Trials Lead

- **Company:** Matchtech
- **Location:** Bristol, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** £53,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Systems Engineering, Configuration Management, Interoperability, Integration Tests
- **Published:** September 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.careerjet.co.uk/job/gb45681157c7739bedc1c4f5813bce933d/eaa

## About the Role

* Good verbal and written communication skills
 * Experience communicating with a wide and varied range of engineering and management stakeholders
 * Experience working within a large team, across multiple sites and departments
 * Experience with ground-based integration and proving, particularly in Trundle, EMC, Interoperability, and Thermal trials
 * Experience in 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 root cause analysis at subsystem integration level
 * Experience in customer-facing roles

## Description

* Taking ownership of test artefacts to ensure requirement coverage and maintain configuration control
 * Leading a small team in conducting ground integration test events and reviewing the results generated
 * Reporting on test progress and producing formal result reports for the qualification period
 * Planning trials with stakeholders to demonstrate integration and gather evidence to qualify Land Ceptor from a Ground Trials perspective
 * Facilitating events with stakeholders, including external test houses
 * Liaising with systems engineering and design teams to acquire adequate trials data and resolve design issues
 * Supporting safe trials by developing and maintaining risk assessments, and managing hardware and software assets
 * Understanding security implications within the trial environment


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