Energetics & Effectiveness Engineer

Location: Belfast, United Kingdom
Thales people architect solutions that are relied upon to deliver operational advantage at every decisive moment throughout the mission. Defence and armed forces customers rely on us to deliver the full range of defensive systems for land, sea, and air. From early warning, to threat neutralisation, our platforms cover all levels from very short-range systems, to extended protection across the entire battle-space including Airspace Mobility Solutions, Vehicles and Tactical Systems and Missile Defence, Optronics, and Radar.
Together we offer fantastic opportunities for committed employees to learn and develop their career with us. At Thales UK, we research, develop, and supply technology and services that impact the lives of millions of people each day to make life better, and keep us safer. We innovate across five major industries; Aerospace, Defence, Ground Transportation, Security and Space. Your health and well-being matters to us and that's why we offer you the flexibility to do what's important to you; whether that's part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.
Energetics & Effectiveness Engineer
Location: Belfast or Templecombe
Are you self-motivated, and capable of working on your own initiative? Are you interested in emerging Energetics & Effectiveness technologies? Do you love solving complex problems? Do you have a can-do attitude and enjoy getting stuck in? Got your interest, then look no further
What the role has to offer:

• Technical Challenges across a range of effectors
• Working in a fast paced agile environment
• Work across the lifecycle from concept, through development to production.

About the team
You will be embedded in a team of missile specialists and will work across a number of programs supporting bids, studies and programs developing solutions to meet customer needs. As a member of the missile team you will contribute to the development of effector concepts & energetics sub-system development roadmaps. You will work with delivery teams to ensure that development is aligned with customer needs.
You will be working alongside a group of technically gifted employees who bring together Thales products and external partner products to meet the customer needs. You and the team will be responsible for leading development of innovative, agile, end-to-end solutions. Shape and cohere user, customer and market understanding, and assure delivery of solutions that are coherent with the IAS & Thales Business Strategy and meet customer needs.
Our Opportunity
Thales is a world leader in Air Defence and Surface Attack systems, bringing together a unique combination of Thales and Partner products to deliver Weapon Systems that meet our customer's needs. A key element of these systems are the missile products that Thales specialise in developing.
An opportunity has arisen to join our Missile Capability team within the Technical Directorate, working on the design and development of innovative missile energetics and effectiveness solutions to meet customer requirements and business needs.
The role covers all aspects of the Energetics & Effectiveness lifecycle, from requirements capture and analysis through solution definition, concept studies, modelling and simulation, design and development.
Key responsibilities:
As part of the IAS (Integrated Airspace protection Systems) Solutions Missile Capability team, your role will involve internal and external customer interaction.
Responsibilities will include:

• Develop & maintain mathematical models of the energetic systems in our existing missile products.
• Develop and maintain a systems effectiveness and warhead lethality capability suitable for current and emerging threats.
• Develop and maintain an understanding of the physical properties of energetic materials, the latest technological developments in the field & future roadmaps including all aspects of production, testing & exploitation.
• Build & maintain long term relationships with customers, partners, and suppliers and work with them to validate Thales' models.
• Develop specifications for energetic components of our future missile products in accordance with the relevant standards and certification processes.
• Provide technical oversight & governance, subject matter expertise and training to colleagues.
• Deliver briefings & presentations as required to technical forums both internally and externally.

About You
You will have a relevant degree in a numerate or engineering discipline in addition to good analytical skills and problem-solving capabilities. You will have experience working within the Defence or Aerospace industries ideally with significant experience of energetics systems, warhead technology and effectiveness in particular. You will have experience of mathematical modelling and use of MATLAB/Simulink or similar toolsets for analysis of complex systems and data sets. You will have a solid understanding and preferably practical experience of the application of Finite Element Analysis and Computational Fluid Dynamics to the modelling of energetic components and their effectiveness.
What We Can Offer
We're committed to giving you opportunities to be your best. We believe in embracing the passion and potential of our people, and to achieve this we offer market leading training, development and experiences, along with the opportunity to be mentored and coached by some of the smartest minds in the industry. We hire from within as our first priority, so you'll have a myriad of opportunities within our diverse, global organisation.
Flexibility
Your health and well-being matters to us and that's why we offer you the flexibility to do what's important to you; whether that's part time hours, job sharing, home working, or the ability to flex your start and finish times. Where possible, we support a working pattern that suits your lifestyle and helps you reach your ambitions.
If you are interested in this role, we would encourage you to have informal chat with the Talent Acquisition Partner.
Thales is an equal opportunities employer and diversity and inclusion are integral to the success of Thales.
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