Documentation Controller - Stevenage, United Kingdom - MBDA

MBDA

Verified Company

Stevenage, United Kingdom

1 week ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

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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.

Salary:
up to £37,000 (depending on experience)

What we can offer you:

Company bonus of up to £2,500 (based on company performance and will vary year to year)
Pension of maximum total (employer and employee) contribution of up to 14%
Annual salary review
Paid overtime
Up to 15 days flexi leave
25 days annual leave (plus holiday purchase)
Fantastic site facilities, including subsidised meals, free car parking and more
Excellent career progression and development opportunities

Hybrid working pattern:
Typically 2-3 days on site

The opportunity:

We have an exciting opportunity for a proactive and passionate document controller, to join our Weapons System Simulation and Experimentation team.

WSSE are integral in the development of weapon systems and system architectures, as a result we have developed a capability supporting developments across the full product life cycle.

The team integrate real products, models and synthetic environments to provide visualisation, demonstrations, verification & validation as well as training capability and support.

What we're looking for from you:

Responsibilities:

You will be part of a mixed skill cross functional team focused on ensuring the documentation associated with Design, Development, Integration, Test, and delivery are tracked through Authoring, peer review and approvals and are of sufficient technical and quality standard in order to support achieving delivery milestones of our products.

We are looking to strengthen the documentation control and delivery within the Delivery Support team.

You will be recognised as a specialist in your area of expertise and assigned as Document Control specialist to support the development, management, review and publication of documentation within the Department Support Function.

Support to the Project leads in defining, controlling and tracking of all internal and external documentation related to delivery of the Project
Support the development of processes for Documentation Control to maximise efficiency without sacrificing quality and accuracy.
Support to the Project Teams in the creation and management of Documentation Tasks in the appropriate Business Lifecycle Management Tool
Create and manage the Project Repositories in the appropriate business Functional Information Management tool
Documentation Controller support to multiple Projects and teams concurrently at different points in the product lifecycle.
Managing the Project teams responsibilities to the business in terms of Technical and Design Review Gates
Internal Quality Assurance of the documentation prior to providing for peer review
Ensure coherence of department documentation to business templates
Preparation of Technical documentation for Authoring
Support to writing Technical Reports
Management of Documentation through the peer review and approvals process
Support to demonstrations and briefings of products.
The role is relatively autonomous and experience in leading and reporting on a project is required as you will project manage your assigned publication development through to delivery of all Project Documentation to the correct standard for quality and accuracy.

Skillset/experience required:

You will need to be familiar with the process of development, review and publication of documentation.
You will need to have an understanding of configuration and quality control of documentation, and the tools associated with that.
You will need to be highly proficient in the use of standard Microsoft office tools (PowerPoint, WORD, XL, One Note, Visio etc.)
Good communicator with resilience across all levels and a strong problem solver.
Good Teamworking skills is essential
Experience in working within a cross functional team of engineers, across multiple projects is essential.
Experience in working with documentation configuration tools is essential
Experience in working with documentation templates to retain commonality across documentation is preferable but not essential as training can be provided.

Our Business:

We respect new perspectives and experiences, and we value our collaborative ways of working.

We are committed to growing and supporting diversity in our workforce and ensuring everyone has an equal opportunity to reach their potential.

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.

We also welcome applicants who are looking for flexible working arrangements.

Due to the nature of our business, this particular vacancy requires the applicant as a minimum to be a British Citizen or a Dual UK national with British