Entry Level Technical Author

13 hours ago

Stevenage, United Kingdom MBDA Full time

MBDA are looking for ambitious engineers to join our team and develop their career as a Technical Publications Author or Illustrator. This is a great opportunity to forge a new career within a major player in the Defence industry.

**Salary**: Up to £28K (dependent on experience + bonus + benefits)

**What we can offer you**:

- ** Company bonus**: Up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
- ** Pension**: maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
- ** Overtime**:opportunity for paid overtime
- ** Flexi Leave**: Up to 15 additional days
- ** Flexible working**:We welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements
- ** Enhanced parental leave**: offers up to 26 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave -enhancements are available for paternity leave, neonatal leave and fertility testing and treatments
- ** Facilities**: Fantastic site facilities including subsidised meals, free car parking and much more

**Hybrid working pattern**: Where possible, we will seek to accommodate a blended approach to on-site. - 3-4 days on-site with 1-2 days working from home.

**The opportunity**:
We are looking for ambitious engineers to join our team and develop their career as a Technical Publications Author or Illustrator. If you're the right person for us, you will join a supportive environment surrounded by passionate engineering authors while being part of a collaborative and driven team. You will join a training program to become an Author or Illustrator and learn to focus on the customer requirement, manage stakeholders and assist with delivering security for the UK and its partner nations.

As a Technical Publication Author or Illustrator you will deliver technical publication manuals for operator and maintenance solutions to major programmes developing the latest Complex Weapons capabilities for the UK Armed Forces in response to advanced threats in all domains (Air, Land, and Sea).

You will have the opportunity to grow your skills and contribute to developing requirements and functional architectures, analysing performance and supporting trade-off studies, planning and managing missile system certification activities, all whilst playing your part in a successful missile systems design team.

**What we're looking for from you**:

- Electrical or Mechanical qualified at HNC/HND level with a minimum of 2 years experience in a maintenance or servicing environment.
- English Grade 5 / C or higher.
- A Passionate and Dedicated individual to become an integral part of delivering MBDA's high-end capabilities into the armed forces.
- The creativity and practicality to work with complex problems and derive logical solutions.
- Adaptability and innovation in a varied and often fast-paced role.

**Our company: Peace is not a given, Freedom is not a given, Sovereignty is not a given**

MBDA is a leading defence organisation. We are proud of the role we play in supporting the Armed Forces who protect our nations. We partner with governments to work together towards a common goal, defending our freedom.

We are proud of our employee-led networks, examples include: Gender Equality, Pride, Menopause Matters, Parents and Carers, Armed Forces, Ethnic Diversity, Neurodiversity and more

We recognise that everyone is unique, and we encourage you to speak to us should you require any advice, support or adjustments throughout our recruitment process.

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