Salary and Employment
Salary: £45,000-£55,000 DOE. Full time, permanent position.
What We Offer
- Pension Contribution - salary sacrifice option.
- Annual Bonus Scheme - participation in company discretionary bonus.
- Life Assurance and Critical Illness Cover - 4x salary Life Assurance and CC cover.
- Annual Leave - 25 days plus bank holidays.
- Christmas Leave - typically observed shutdown.
- Wellbeing Day - one extra day each year.
- Family Leave - enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
- Private Healthcare - comprehensive coverage.
- Professional Development - training programmes & LinkedIn Learning.
- Flexible Working - flexible arrangements.
- Inclusive Culture - diverse, innovative environment.
Role Overview
Payload Integration Manager within Product team: deliver rapidly integrated operational payloads across surface, aerial, and subsurface platforms. Operate in prototype warfare, ensuring right payloads identified, integrated, and fielded. Hands on, delivery focused, prioritising mission success over process.
Responsibilities
- Own payload integration from concept to trial.
- Identify and prioritise payload options with suppliers.
- Translate intelligence and operational needs into integration reality.
- Rapid prototyping and physical integration using CAD and 3D printing.
- Pull critical inputs from Engineering to convert constraints into solutions.
- Act as cross functional integration hub aligning operations, engineering, and commercial.
- Support trials, demonstrations, operational testing; resolve issues in real time.
- Define pragmatic payload requirements ensuring safety, repeatability, and speed.
- Provide expertise on payload and weapons integration risks, trade offs, & future rapid delivery options.
Qualifications and Experience
- 3+ years weapons, sensor, or payload integration in defence, aerospace, maritime, robotics, or autonomous systems domains.
- Strong understanding of mechanical, electrical, and control interfaces; hands on with engineers.
- Experience delivering prototype or rapid iteration capability.
- Working knowledge of CAD and rapid prototyping / 3D printing.
- Proven ability to engage external suppliers and coordinate with internal teams.
- Comfortable translating incomplete operational needs into working payload integrations.
- Familiarity with safety cases, certification constraints, and live trial environments.
- Adaptable, self driven, efficient in fast moving, high pressure delivery settings.
- Willing to travel domestically and internationally at short notice.
- Able to obtain and maintain UK Security Clearance (minimum SC).
Security Requirements
Selected candidate must meet security requirements: right to live and work in the UK, Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) plus UK National security clearance where required.
Values and Expectations
- Teamwork, mutual respect, collaboration.
- Initiative and independent working.
- Honesty and integrity.
- Business and commercial awareness.
- Agility, adaptability, continuous development.
EEO Statement
We are committed to building an inclusive, diverse workplace where everyone can thrive.