Job Title: Autonomy Capability Manager
Location: Stoke Gifford, Bristol + Hybrid Working Arrangements
Compensation: Competitive + Benefits
Role Type: Full time / Permanent
Role ID: SF55307
At Babcock we’re working to create a safe and secure world, together, and if you join us, you can play your part as an Autonomy Capability Manager at our Babcock Technology Centre site.
The role
As an Autonomy Capability Manager, you’ll have a role that’s out of the ordinary. You’ll draw together the medium- and longer-term aspirations of customers for autonomous aviation systems and the evolving technologies. Working across Babcock to build a strategy to maximise customer relationships, integrating capabilities and technologies
Day to day, you’ll be working across Babcock to build a strategy to maximise customer relationships, integrating capabilities and technologies.
- Support development of the emerging pan-Babcock autonomy strategy
- Work with Mission Systems to develop the ability to maximise capabilities in systems engineering, sense/connect, effectors, technology analysis and military intelligence.
- Engage with suppliers, funding bodies and academia to explore opportunities to jointly develop Research and Development (R&D) programmes, customer demonstrations and building eco systems.
- Conducting operational analysis of the performance of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) systems and payloads against likely usage scenarios.
- Engage with Business Development to jointly capture customer requirements and establish the capabilities required to develop options.
This role is full time, 40 hours based on site at Babcock Technology Centre with hybrid working from home arrangements.
Essential experience of the Autonomy Capability Manager:
- Strong understanding of regulated aviation industries particularly around airworthiness, certification, airspace management and Unmanned Aerial Systems operation and support.
- Good understanding of autonomy, autonomous systems, systems engineering, Unmanned Aerial Systems, sensors, effectors and systems integration.
- Experience in programme management and capability development.
- Have the commercial acumen to understand the potential opportunities and how to join the dots to build capabilities to turn them into actionable business cases.
- Ability to work collaboratively with internal and external parties.
Qualifications for the Autonomy Capability Manager:
We value difference and 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.
Please note that this position is subject to enhanced national security vetting. The successful candidate must be a sole UK national who is able to satisfy Ministry of Defence security requirements (this may include obtaining SC, NNPPI or Developed Vetting (DV) level of security clearances).
Our Benefits
- Generous holiday allowance
- Matched contribution pension scheme, with life assurance
- Employee share scheme
- Employee shopping savings portal
- Payment of Professional Fees
- Reservists in the armed forces receive 10-days special paid leave
- Holiday Trading is a benefit that allows most employees to buy additional leave or to sell up to one working week of annual leave from their annual entitlement
- ‘Be Kind Day’ enables employees to take one working day's paid leave a year (or equivalent hours) to undertake volunteering work with their chosen organisation or registered charity
Babcock International
For over a century Babcock International have helped to defend nations, protect communities, and build a better world. To continue, we must adapt, advance and be a sustainable business with a shared goal.
If you have a disability or need any reasonable adjustments during the application and selection stages, please let us know. We’re committed to building an inclusive culture where everyone’s free to thrive. We are happy to talk about flexible working - please ask about alternative patterns of work at interview.
Closing date: 31/01/2024
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