Job Description

The role will work with project managers and technical leads to provide in-depth knowledge to deliver technical outputs within Comms and networks projects.

The role is responsible for delivering larger complex technical tasks to support the delivery of projects. You will generally work as part of a team. You will help design, implement and deliver new systems and solutions. You will be expected to undertake tasks of increasing complexity, requiring the ability to consider the problem, derive a range of potential solutions and decide on the best course of action to reach a cost-effective outcome with little or no supervision. You will be required to take a proactive approach to customer relationships, the adoption of standards, internal processes, contributing to continuous improvement initiatives, and the management of work within a team context.

Experience & Qualifications

• A degree in Science or Engineering, or an equivalent, nationally recognised, professional qualification, with typically around 5 years of further on the job experience.
• Experience of working with a broad and comprehensive range of concepts and principles within the areas of resilient RF communications.
• Ability to use modelling, software and operational analyses techniques to formulate a problem and provide analysis and conclusions.
• Knowledge of Line of Sight (LOS) and Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) systems.
• Understanding of RF propagation in both LOS and BLOS environments and the physical layer elements of the system relating to key performance attributes e.g. antennas, spectrum access, modulation and coding.
• Systems engineering background, understanding requirements capture, integration planning and testing.
• Ability to collect and analyse data from multiple sources, reason out trends and outliers and provide actionable advice pitched at the correct level for the audience through reports or presentations.
• Experience of delivering high value, research, consultancy and engineering activities with multi-disciplinary teams.
• NB. Candidates are required to obtain a minimum of SC security clearance. To qualify, you should be a British Citizen and have resided in the UK for the last 5 years for SC and 10 years for DV.