Ammunition Technician

Job Title:     Ammunition Technician
Location:     Eskmeals
Package:     Competitive Salary + Benefits Package  
Role Type:   Full-time / Permanent
Role ID:        SF17092
 
The Role
Be part of the QinetiQ journey. Join us as an Ammunition Technician where you will be working with many types of ammunition and explosives. The role provides sheer variety where you will support on the delivery of trials, inventory management, housekeeping of explosives buildings and general ammunition management duties. 

Day-to-day, you will:

• Prepare ammunition for trials and proof activities including delivery to the Ranges
• Receive and dispatch ammunition, including accurate completion of all relevant documentation
• Stock check
• Inspect the licences for explosives buildings
• Have control of entry into explosives areas
• Support the site on any task required

 
This role is full-time, 37 hours per week and you will be on the Eskmeals site full time. The role requires outdoor work in extremes of weather, and manual handling.
 
Experience of the Ammunition Technician:

• An awareness of Ordnance, Munitions & Explosives
• Must be able to work as part of a team in a busy operational environment and take the lead when required
• Take responsibility for own Health and Safety and be prepared to challenge any unsafe behaviours observed in others
• Warehouse experience is advantageous 

 
Qualifications of the Ammunition Technician: 

• Education level GCSE, NVQ or similar
• Full UK car driving licence

Please note that all applicants must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum. 
National security vetting: clearance levels - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Our Benefits

• Generous holiday allowance
• Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance
• Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
• Employee discount portal: Personal Accident Insurance, Travel Insurance, Restaurants, Cinema Tickets and much more.
• Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy up to 5 days’ additional leave. 
• We are proud to support the Armed Forces community by honouring the Armed Forces Covenant. 
• Payroll Giving and Volunteering - helping charities and local community.

 
Our volunteering programme enables our people to use their professional skills to make a positive difference in our local communities, for example STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) ambassador days in schools. We support a number of charities that are important to our people, including those, which help the defence community. 
 

Why join QinetiQ?

As we continue to grow into new markets around the world, there’s never been a more exciting time to join QinetiQ. The formula for success is our appetite for innovation and having the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges.

You’ll experience a unique working environment where teams from different backgrounds, disciplines and experience enjoy collaborating widely and openly as we undertake this exciting and rewarding journey. Through effective teamwork, and pulling together, you’ll get to experience what happens when we all share different perspectives, blend disciplines, and link technologies; constantly discovering new ways of solving complex problems in a diverse and inclusive environment where you can be authentic, feel valued and realise your full potential. Read more about our diverse and inclusive workplace culture here.  

Joining QinetiQ offers you an opportunity to work on a broad range of interesting defence-based projects with vast career progression across a global organisation in addition to competitive personal and professional benefits.  You’ll receive a highly competitive salary and benefits package: our basic salaries are very attractive as we constantly review what’s happening in the market. The range of benefits that we offer include, adaptive and flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance and much more. 

About QinetiQ

As a company of over 6,000 dedicated professionals, we are a world-centre of excellence in research and development and act as a catalyst for fast-track innovation, offering outstanding experimentation facilities, and technical, engineering and scientific expertise. QinetiQ is made up of dedicated experts in defence, aerospace, security and related markets, all working together to explore new ways of protecting what matters most. Being part of QinetiQ means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help to save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend. Come and find out how you can play a role.

Please note that many roles in QinetiQ are subject to national security vetting. Applicants that already hold the appropriate level of vetting may be able to transfer it upon appointment, subject to approval. A number of roles are also subject to restrictions on access to information that mean factors such as nationality, previous nationalities held and the country in which you were born may have an effect on the roles that you can be employed in.