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Submarine Modelling & Simulation Engineer

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Winnersh

Benefits:

• £: Competitive salary
• Contributory Pension Scheme (up to 10.5% company contribution)
• 6 times salary ‘Life Assurance’ with pension
• 25 days holiday (increasing with service) + statutory public holidays, plus opportunity to buy and sell up to 5 days (37hr)
• Company bonus scheme (discretionary)
• Flexible Benefits scheme with extensive salary sacrifice schemes, including Health Cashplan, Dental, and Cycle to Work amongst others
• Enhanced sick pay
• Enhanced family friendly policies including enhanced maternity, paternity & shared parental leave

Work Culture

• 37hr working week, although hours may vary depending on role, job requirement or site-specific arrangements.
• Early 1.30pm finish Friday, start your weekend early!
• Remote, hybrid and site based working opportunities, dependant on your needs and the requirements of the role.
• Up to 5 paid days volunteering each year.
• Flexible working culture focused on output, with more formal flexible working arrangements on request (assessed subject to role) - please highlight any requests to the Talent Acquisition team.

About us

At Raytheon UK, we take immense pride in being a leader in defence and aerospace technology. As an employer, we are dedicated to fuelling innovation, nurturing talent, and fostering a culture of excellence.

As a leading defence and aerospace company operating across the United Kingdom, Raytheon UK helps to solve our customers’ toughest challenges. We are a major supplier to the UK government and customers around the globe, providing defence solutions across all domains: land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace. We also provide digital and training transformation solutions to commercial and military customers.

With circa 2000 employees and major facilities operating throughout the UK including Broughton (Wales), Livingston and Glenrothes (Scotland), and Harlow, Gloucester, and Manchester (England); we are committed to investing in British careers and technology development.

Through advanced technology and our people’s expertise, our Training Transformation Services is modernising what’s possible in the training and preparation of our armed forces. With a real blended approach to learning and using the latest innovative systems and technology, we ensure our service men and women really are prepared for any situation. 

Role & Responsibilities

The Marine Engineering Submarine Modelling and Simulation (MESM-SM) engineer is responsible for gathering the technical data to support the simulation and modelling teams work development programme.  The MESM-SM will have suitable Knowledge, Skills and Behaviour and will understand the technical data required, the sources of that data and how to access that data.

The MESM-SM will work with the software and systems engineering teams to identify technical data requirements for the development of Defence Systems Approach to Training (DSAT) simulations.

Having identified the data requirements, the Requirements Team SME will work with the software and systems engineering teams to ensure that models, algorithms, simulations and emulations are representative of real world systems to the level of fidelity required for a particular task.

Responsibilities

• Work as a member of the wider team responsible for the analysis, design, maintenance, review and production of DSAT Documentation & processes for our Customer’s training sites and organisations.
• Interviewing subject matter experts to collate required data, participate in internal workshops to discuss and agree findings from analysis.
• Work with the customer and the customer’s agents and suppliers to identify technical data required for courseware and media development and also external routes to obtain the data.
• Work with the systems engineering team to identify required levels of fidelity, accuracy and responsiveness and document this for the software engineering & modelling teams to implement.
• Configure operational parameters of simulators and emulators during development and testing phases.
• Identify where training methods and media currently in use in the Customer may be exploited to better develop and deliver the Programme’s courseware.
• Be ‘Responsible for championing and fostering a culture of Environmental, Health, and Safety (EHS) compliance and continuous improvement’.
• Any other duties required to complete the Simulation and Modelling function within the engineering dept.

Required experience

• Proven at sea experience as a Cat A or Cat B Nuclear watchkeeper.
• Desire to learn and apply best engineering practices with training/simulation environment

Desirable experience

• Electrical Background.
• Fwd ME duties.
• Experience of operating or configuring simulators for training purposes
• Knowledge of Agile development processes
• Experience of git-based version control systems.
• Familiarity with creating and editing structured documents such as JSON or XML
• Training requirements, design or delivery.
• Member of a Boat Build Crew
• DE&S/SDA.

RTX adheres to the principles of equal employment. All qualified applications will be given careful consideration without regard to ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation or identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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