Senior Vibration Engineer / Scientist

Job Title:        Senior Vibration Engineer / Scientist
Location:        Home base will be Farnborough, trials predominately at Hurn, opportunity to work from home or other QinetiQ sites eg Salisbury, Gosport or Portsmouth.
Package:        Highly Competitive Salary + Benefits Package
Role Type:      Full time
Role ID:          SF16697

The Senior Vibration Engineer will lead the team responsible for delivering work to understanding platform vibration and whole body vibration, predominately associated with Land vehicles, on a diverse range of projects across the QinetiQ portfolio.

The role:

You will support our military and commercial customers in the UK and overseas, delivering trials  at Hurn and working with the rest of the team based at Farnborough. The Senior Vibration Engineer will also build capability and become an ‘expert’ within both the organisation and their customer community.

Day-to-day, you will:

• Identify potential human performance related opportunities both directly with Land customers and as components to larger opportunities that are being pursued strategically by QinetiQ.
• Lead the analysis of human performance related platform vibration data analysis and reporting Lead proposals that are platform vibration related in the Land domain, working with other technical groups, ensuring an appropriate quality of bid and delivery plans.
• Work with the wider trials team to  deliver vibration data gathering on military land vehicles, ensuring the quality of the outputs.
• Conduct customer engagement (at up to very senior levels), communicating and capturing future needs and intended customer direction.
• Develop QinetiQ’s Human Performance Capability – identifying areas for growth and developing capability plans associated with platform vibration in the Land domain to meet future challenges. This may also involve identification and delivery of internal investment projects.

Essential experience of the Senior Vibration Engineer:

• The Senior Vibration Engineer should have a degree or equivalent in a relevant field and substantial experience within the domain.
• You must have experience in undertaking Vibration Trials.
• The Senior Vibration Engineer must also have experience conducting Data Analysis,

Qualifications for the Senior Vibration Engineer:

We value difference and we don’t have a fixed idea when it comes to background or education, provided you can show the required level of experience and willingness to learn then we would like to hear from you.

Must hold a current full UK driving licence.

Please note that all applicants must be eligible for SC clearance, as a minimum.

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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

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, 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 an 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 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, flexible working, generous holiday entitlements, Health Cash Plan, Private Medical Insurance and Dental Insurance and much more.

About QinetiQ

As a company of over six thousand 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.

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